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Pray for Joe Manchin
Townhall.com ^ | November 22, 2021 | Tom Tradeup

Posted on 11/22/2021 4:04:26 AM PST by Kaslin

Lost in the nationwide grieving by the mainstream media over the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges stemming from defending himself against violent rioters last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin was the U.S. House’s passage Friday of the most massive consumer fraud since Bernie Madoff gave creative accounting advice to crooks at Enron.

I’m referring, of course, to the fraudulently-named “Build Back Better” bill …which should more accurately be described as the “Biden-Harris-Pelosi  Blueprint for Bankrupting America while Encouraging N’er-do Wells to Sit At Home Drinking Colt .45 Malt Liquor and Watching Netflix while Attaching Themselves like Barnacles to Hard Working Taxpayers” Act.   Kinda long for a bumper sticker, but Joe wants to destroy all gas-powered cars anyway.

Tuning in to C-SPAN Friday and watching Speaker Pelosi and AOC and members of The Squad and the Congressional Black Caucus literally gyrating and hula-dancing on the floor of the House after stabbing

331-million Americans in the back with their Leviathan of out-of-control spending was a depressing sight to behold. A raucous celebration of how they had just taken the first step in a process which would condemn untold, unborn generations of Americans to crushing debt while they fed their lust for power surely represented one of the darkest days in American political history.

Biden and his soulless automatons in the House keep prevaricating that Build Back Better “is fully funded and won’t add one cent to the Federal deficit.”  Secondly, the pricetag for this outrageous spending spree has been fixed by Democrats—and their handmaidens in the media like Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow and Wolfe Blitzer—at “$1.7-trillion.” 100% false and they know it.

If the U.S. Senate (that’s where your prayers for Joe Manchin are urgently needed) rubber stamps this atomic suppository for taxpayers just passed by the U.S. House, the actual price tag—and this is a VERY conservative estimate—will be just shy of $5-trillion. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget pegs to cost at $4.9-trillion if temporary tax credits and programs are made permanent through 2031.  So Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and AOC and the rest of the irresponsible budget arsonists on Capitol Hill were deceptively sneaky with their protestations that BBB would “not add a single penny to the deficit.”  Right. It will add a minimum of $1.5-trillion in deficits over just the first five years.

But that’s only the beginning of the non-stop wasteful spending Democrats plan to octopus-wire throughout America. If the floodgates of the U.S. Treasury are flung open, look for Enhanced Child Tax Credits, Free College Tuition, and Expanded Broadband Connections for teepees on Tribal Lands. Like Dr. Mengele crafting newer and more evil ways to vivisect humans during the Third Reich, Pelosi and her Fifth Columnists used sneaky Washington budget tricks like “sunsetting” programs after a few years and funneling money to their union cronies like Randi Weingarten and the UAW through “pilot programs” which would allow Democratic tentacles to wrap around the Free Enterprise system and crush it like a grape.

More subsidies for ObamaCare..more Federal tax dollars siphoned from the taxpayers to help fund baby-killers like Planned Parenthood. The sky’s the limit. Why stop at Universal Pre-K? Why not slip in subsidies for more giant John Kerry-approved windmills and free electric shopping carts for Seniors. And since they nightly defend and give nodding approval of the insane Biden Administration plan to give $450,000-per-person to illegal aliens who broke our laws sneaking into the United States, no reason for Pelosi to think she can’t count on the “media” to support additional doles and reparations for Antifa and BLM rioters who may have cut themselves or gotten hangnails while looting and burning liquor stores and minimarts across the nation. When it comes to House Democrats, there is literally no idea too nutty or too farfetched to not make the basis for another Build Back Better boondoggle.

So now BBB slithers across the Capitol, where literally the only person standing between the America we all love and the nightmare of a Red Dawn brought on by “Build Back Better” is the senior senator from West Virginia Joe Manchin.

Throughout the Summer Manchin resisted pressure from The White House (although that’s minimal at best since compared to Joe Biden a busboy at Denny’s is a more imposing figure) and Democrats in Congress (Manchin would be more scared of an elderly Walmart greeter wearing a “How May I Help You?” vest than any of the nonentities in the Democratic Senate Caucus.) He’s even ignored screaming lunatics who yelled at him on his houseboat Almost Heaven moored in D.C. and another band who temporarily blocked his car. Riddle me this: is there no security for U.S. Senators anymore?

Manchin is “skeptical” of adding to the deficit. And he’s no fan of an Administration that has declared war on coal…his home state’s #1 industry. If he stands on principle and means what he keeps saying, his “no” vote will be enough to “Kill Back Better” on the spot. But he is—after all—a Democrat.

In the old parable of the frog and the fire ant, a frog was asked by a venomous fire ant to carry him across a raging river. “No,” said the frog, “because if I do you’ll sting me with your toxic venom.” But the fire ant protested, “I won’t. If I did, we’d both drown.” So the frog started across the water and at the halfway point, the fire ant stung him. As he began to sink, the frog cried, “Why did you sting me?” And the fire ant replied, “It’s just my nature.”

Scripture calls on us to pray for our leaders. So I am lifting up Joe Manchin in prayer. He needs to be covered in prayers especially in the midst of this budget crisis in Washington. I pray—and encourage you to join me—that Senator Manchin would receive God’s wisdom and defy the skeptics who think he’ll “cave in the end.” Let’s all pray for his strength to stand up to unGodly pressures and with his single, powerful vote pull America back from the abyss.


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1 posted on 11/22/2021 4:04:26 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

My prediction is that he folds like a cheap suit.


2 posted on 11/22/2021 4:09:08 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: HighSierra5

hope not.


3 posted on 11/22/2021 4:10:51 AM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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To: Kaslin

Manchin will get it pared down to “$1.5 million”, call his efforts a success and vote Yes.


4 posted on 11/22/2021 4:15:06 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: sauropod

Manchin is a wolf in RINO clothing. Whatever that means.


5 posted on 11/22/2021 4:17:17 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: HighSierra5
My prediction is that he folds like a cheap suit.

Of course. Thanks to Mitch $ McCarthy, Republicans are once again hanging their hopes on a Democrat. To say Rs are useless is an understatement,

6 posted on 11/22/2021 4:21:20 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Kaslin

How do we know people like Romney will not vote for it?
There is also Sinema from Arizona,but who know what other sleazebag wont fold.
We do need to pray for a miracle


7 posted on 11/22/2021 4:24:31 AM PST by ballplayer
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To: JonPreston

What kind of comment was that? The Rats control both chambers. The GOP has no power in a reconciliation bill.


8 posted on 11/22/2021 4:27:14 AM PST by hawkaw
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To: Kaslin

Pray for Joe Manchin and send him a note saying you are at
https://www.manchin.senate.gov/contact-joe

Manchin has ben strong and killed the “Let’s make Democrat voter fraud legal” bills that Chuckie has tried to sneak by.

The Senate version has not been written yet and will not be voted on before January at the earliest.

By then Joey Brandon’s numbers could be in the low 30s and the race to get away from him as fast as possible will be on.

Watch how many Democrats run. Eddie Johnson who won essentially 80/20 snuck away Saturday. More rodents will flee as well. Then who will want to tie his/hers or its name to anything Joey has done?


9 posted on 11/22/2021 4:28:06 AM PST by jmaroneps37
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To: Kaslin

Sucks to be at the mercy of a Democrat, but it was OUR CHOICE, or more specifically, the choice of 500,000 Trump voters who didn’t bother to show up for the Georgia Senate Runoffs, you know, to ‘teach the GOP a lesson’.

...and to be honest after that attempt to purify the GOP, I figured by now the gulags would be under construction (as even that is Constitutional, once they’re able to pack the courts)...but Manchin is preventing it, for now.


10 posted on 11/22/2021 4:28:17 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Kaslin

I hate to say this but let the economy crash and burn. It’s inevitable and regardless of what happens Republicans won’t reverse any of it or stop it. Americans needs to wake up and unite against these commies. The only way that happens is when their money is worthless.


11 posted on 11/22/2021 4:35:39 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: ballplayer
" ----but who know what other sleazebag wont fold

One or more of the "sisters": Capito, Collins, or Murkowski. It is for the children you know.

12 posted on 11/22/2021 4:35:53 AM PST by buckalfa (I have forgotten more than I ever knew.)
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To: Kaslin

The title BBB is so juvenile...


13 posted on 11/22/2021 4:43:55 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: HighSierra5

How can he be a RINO as he is a democrat. If you would have said he’s a DINO than you would have been correct.


14 posted on 11/22/2021 4:53:52 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden,s aka president Milk Carton)
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To: HighSierra5

He always does, but we will see.


15 posted on 11/22/2021 4:55:08 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden,s aka president Milk Carton)
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To: buckalfa

I don’t know who Capito is, but Collins and Murkowski always vote with the rats, unless it goes for their own reelection. But these two are genuine RINOs and there can be no doubt about it


16 posted on 11/22/2021 5:01:54 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden,s aka president Milk Carton)
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To: Kaslin

Manchin always caves. He lacks integrity. The Dems will get another massive spending bill thru after some cosmetic, meaningless compromises.


17 posted on 11/22/2021 5:02:31 AM PST by kabar
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To: BobL

Yep. So true. Frustrating!


18 posted on 11/22/2021 5:04:18 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: Kaslin

Capito is the “other” WV senator. She’s a moderate-to-marginal Republican who wants to be the state’s next Byrd. The more she tries to be Byrd the more RINO or marginal she becomes. I always vote against her in the primary.


19 posted on 11/22/2021 5:08:02 AM PST by Reily
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To: Kaslin

Capito is the junior GOP senator for WV. They (WV) might be a red state, but their economy depends on government spending.


20 posted on 11/22/2021 5:17:23 AM PST by buckalfa (I have forgotten more than I ever knew.)
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