Posted on 10/26/2021 9:00:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joe Manchin is the gift that keeps on giving. Well, at least if you are a Republican hoping someone holds the line against Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda.
The West Virginia senator has already demanded (and will get) deep cuts to the formerly $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. He’s also stood in the gap against some of the more harmful climate change and entitlement provisions. To continue that theme, he nuked another major Biden priority today.
As RedState reported, the progressives have been pushing new reporting requirements to snoop on bank accounts with at least $10,000 in outflows over the course of a year. That would mean the IRS could snoop on the financials of what I would assume is the majority of adult Americans. The administration has claimed that the provision targets billionaires, but that’s ludicrous given the minimums. The plan was also meant to provide more government tax receipts to supposedly make the reconciliation deficit-neutral (LOL).
According to Manchin, that ridiculous, privacy-invading and possibly illegal scheme is off the table.
BANK REPORTING : @Sen_JoeManchin clarifies to me he opposed bank reporting no matter what the threshold. “No one should be in anyones bank account “
— Erik Wasson (@elwasson) October 26, 2021
This serves as another gut punch to Biden’s agenda and further culls the progressive wish-list. It also blows a hole in the Democrat attempt to massage the numbers in order to claim the bill is “paid for.” Reconciliation has specific guidelines in regards to adding to the deficit so that could complicate its entire passage.
Maybe that’s the point, though? I’m starting to get the feeling that Manchin really does not want this thing to pass. He wants the infrastructure deal because it’s bipartisan, providing him cover in a red state like West Virginia, but he gains nothing by being a part of Biden’s boondoggle. The more he obstructs, the more likely the entire thing is to collapse. If this isn’t done by the end of October, and that seems unlikely, this will drag into next year. And if this drags into next year, it probably doesn’t get done at all because of the coming election.
Manchin also signaled more coming unrest between him and his ostensibly Democrat allies.
MANCHIN jokes he doesn't really have a party. "I don’t know where in the hell I belong”
— Erik Wasson (@elwasson) October 26, 2021
That’s not something you want to hear from the guy holding the deciding vote on your agenda if you are a Democrat. Manchin has previously denied he’s got a plan to go independent, but it sure does feel like he’s keeping that option on the table, doesn’t it?
This could be another attempt to get the far-left progressives to back off and accept his terms. If they don’t, perhaps he could be pushed to a point where he makes the move. At the very least, Manchin has already announced that he’s fine with none of Biden’s agenda passing. Whether Democrats like it or not, he’s got all the leverage.
Stay strong, Joe Manchin. It’s up to you to sabotage the Dems trillion dollar boondoggle.
Can we make Manchin minority leader in the Senate? He’s doing a far better job stopping Biden and the Squad than McConnell
Great. Now can Sinema step in and up the ante?
I would love to be a fly on the wall in the Biden a ministration now. They rolled into DC claiming to get the Most votes a US history in this mandate with control of all three branches of government in 9/10 months later can’t get any other big progressive agenda accomplished. Each day that passes it looks less and less likely to occur which is going to be making them even more in raged.
Joe Manchin for GOP Senate Minority Leader!
Just kidding. McConnell is a dog that don’t hunt and it is time for him to go though because it’s painfully obvious Manchin really is doing more for Americans than McConnell has lately and that is INEXCUSABLE.
What have you done for us McConnell? Fr@€% nothing.
It has to be soul-crushing to be the pariah on his own side constantly blocking the far-left extremist agenda within his own party.
Manchin's choice is clear:Does he want to spend his career as a majority Democrat trying to block laws that the voters in his state don't want, or does he want to spend his career as a majority Republican trying to pass laws that the voters in his state do want?
Wouldn't it be better to take that power away from the left-wing of his party altogether and give the majority to the Republicans so Manchin can become a shaper of an agenda in a majority party passing laws that the voters in his state actually want?
-PJ
Reminds me of Zell Miller, who Neal Boortz described as Georgia’s greatest Republican governor in history.
“a fly on the wall in the Biden a ministration now”
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Thought there was some play on words going on, talking about a Biden menstruation gone haywire or something but see now that OGINJ’s eyes were only playing trickidie trix on him/her/it/she/em!
Not the kind of mandate one would expect running in favor of an 80MM vote winner, that’s for sure.
Nobody likes a turncoat. Remember Jumping Jim Jeffords. He ended up eating lunch in the senate dining room alone..
She seems to be keeping to herself and avoiding publicity as a tactic. I’m sure the Dems are searching for blackmail material on the lady.
Too bad more critters on both sides don't have this type of independent thinking instead of being members of a club.
I may be overthinking things, but does the present $10,000 reporting requirement allow the IRS to then start monitoring all transactions in an account?
If not, then is this whole $600 thing a charade to give the IRS the right to use the $10,000 trigger to gain access to all transactions in an account?
Yes, the social-communists (er, democrats) are already attacking her for “betraying” her bisexual-lesbian-cisgender gender election “promises” ... as they invade her bathrooms, plane flights, and restaurants.
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