Posted on 12/19/2021 12:12:11 PM PST by marcusmaximus
The White House accused Joe Manchin on Sunday for breaking his word after the Democrat publicly said he is a 'no' on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better initiative following months of negotiations over the social spending legislation.
'Senator Manchin promised to continue conversations in the days ahead, and to work with us to reach that common ground,' White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on his latest comments.
'If his comments on Fox and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position,' she added, 'and a breach of his commitments to the President and the Senator's colleagues in the House and Senate.'
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Less than 30 minutes before Manchin killed BBB, one of his aides was told to give the White House and congressional leadership a heads up, according to Politico.
At the time, Manchin was preparing to go live for an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, who was hosting his first Fox News Sunday episode after Chris Wallace announced his departure last Sunday.
The mood at the White House following news from Manchin's office was described by Politico as 'panic and disbelief'.
'We tried to head him off,' a senior White House official said, claiming Manchin 'refused to take a call from White House staff' before the interview.
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If it caused Psaki to get all wee-wee’d up...then I’m all wee-wee’d happy’.
C’mon, Joe! Have a little fun. Announce that you are going to caucus with the GOP for the remainder of your term, thereby neutralizing Harris’ vote in the Senate. Do it, man!
Maybe he’s a maverick. That’s a good thing isn’t it?
Ginger is one nasty red head.
“The mood at the White House following news from Manchin’s office was described by Politico as ‘panic and disbelief’. “
…which soon turned to relief and joy as soon as they realized that there were plenty of republicans who, with proper motivation, could be relied upon to “reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisanship.”
The Dems are taking large-scale mining equipment sized shovelfulls of bull and dumping it at Manchin’s feet. He’s killing people. 1000$ insulin instead of 35$. Starving babies. People dying in the middle of the street from lack of food and medicine. Everything. Children barefoot. People of color being used for target practice. The histrionics are way past eleven. It’s hilarious to read.
Is Manchin planning to run for re-election in 2024? If so he’s got to move far, far away from the Dem party.
Besides Manchin, there are zero Dems in the W.Va Congressional Delegation (U.S. House and Senate members).
Besides Manchin, there are zero Dems who hold statewide office in W.Va.
“C’mon, Joe! Have a little fun. Announce that you are going to caucus with the GOP for the remainder of your term, thereby neutralizing Harris’ vote in the Senate. Do it, man!”
After reading what the flaming liberals are calling him, would not surprise me at all. This is why the bastards can get 49 votes easily for anything the want in the Senate. Fear.
“Sound like the RATS don’t have the pedo and homo goods on Manchin to force him to get with the program”
That’s a mistake Demswon’t make again when they run someone for office.
Shows that the White House Paid Liar doesn’t have a firm grasp of the obvious .... Manchin has said for weeks that he wouldn’t vote for the bill unless they got rid of all the commie crap.
Jen is counting down her days left on the job.
IMO, not a good comparison. Jen is a Copperhead, loaded with poison in her mouth.
The Peppermint Patty character is very much like my wife was as a tomboy. According to her dad, as a pre-teen, she made the boys her age look quite inferior playing basketball in the alley near their home.
I met her when she was 20, and before our first date was half over I was convinced that she was the most gorgeous example of femininity that I had ever had, and ever would meet. That evaluation was accurate then, and 44 yrs later, still accurate.
She’s not a red head, she’s a Copperhead. Poison comes out of her mouth.
It is not $1.75 trillion, it’s $5 trillion.
They will probably just move their efforts over to any one of the 50 Republicans.
They just need one.
Here comes Romney
Manchin barely one his last election. (49.6% v 46.3% He knows that if he votes for this monstrosity of a bill he is dead meat politically in West Virginia. I suspect he would not vote for it regardless of political consequences.
If this bill were true infrastructure it would pass tomorrow morning with much Republican support. It would be a worthy bill. This bill is not about infrastructur but legalizing vote fraud and making a voting class dependent on the demonic-rat party.
It is that simple.
Oops!
LOL
And here the Democrats thought only Republicans could cross
party lines.
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