Posted on 07/27/2022 2:34:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Nope. He was paid off, and his daughter is the head of a pharmaceutical company which will benefit. As always, follow the money.
Fuel ain’t cheap for his yacht.
Big retirement buyout, for 75 year old Manchin?
Don’t lecture me on my own Senator (who is a whore, a scumbag, and Schumer’s butt boy) ... it’s really unbecoming.
Yea, a Dem. nuff said. Never trust one of them.
[Don’t lecture me on my own Senator (who is a whore, a scumbag, and Schumer’s butt boy) ... it’s really unbecoming.]
You think he’s a rabid right-winger who’s selling his soul for cash. I think he’s a principled and rabid left-winger who lies to stay in office. IMHO, he’s a liar not a whore. If he were a whore, who’d do anything to stay in office, he’d just switch to the GOP, whose positions are diametrically opposed to everything he’s voted for since taking office.
No, I don't. In fact, I have more than once warned out-of-staters to cut it out with the "Manchin should become a Republican" nonsense. That would be a disaster. He uses his position as a pretend moderate to extract something (money, IMO) from Schumer et. al., before bending over for them. IOW, he's a whore.
IMHO, he’s a liar
That, too.
he’d just switch to the GOP,
Not on his bank account. He uses his position as a (fake)"moderate" and "maverick" to enrich himself.
These are things you don't get by just looking at his ACU rating. If you actually lived here, you'd see the subtext of his perfidy.
BTW, you won't see me opining and pontificating on Arizona Senate or Governor elections. I don't live there.
[Not on his bank account. He uses his position as a (fake)”moderate” and “maverick” to enrich himself.]
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Neither post-17th Amendment ratification Schemer or Minchin seem to understand (blatantly ignore?) that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to deal with what are actually state power issues mentioned in the OP imo.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had clarified that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the feds.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, regardless what FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist majority justices wanted everybody to believe about Congress's Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3) when they wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress's favor imo, both President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, and Justice Joseph Story had previously volunteered a lists of example government powers that aren't included in either of Congress's General Welfare or Commerce Clause powers.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphases added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"The question comes to this, whether a power, exclusively for the regulation of commerce, is a power for the regulation of manufactures? The statement of such a question would seem to involve its own answer. Can a power, granted for one purpose, be transferred to another? If it can, where is the limitation in the constitution? Are not commerce and manufactures as distinct, as commerce and agriculture? If they are, how can a power to regulate one arise from a power to regulate the other? It is true, that commerce and manufactures are, or may be, intimately connected with each other. A regulation of one may injuriously or beneficially affect the other. But that is not the point in controversy. It is, whether congress has a right to regulate that, which is not committed to it, under a power, which is committed to it, simply because there is, or may be an intimate connexion between the powers. If this were admitted, the enumeration of the powers of congress would be wholly unnecessary and nugatory. Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphases added]." —Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2:§§ 1073--91
The ultimate remedy for Schumer and Manchin's unconstitutionally big federal government oppressing the people under its boots...
Patriots need to start working ASAP with their Trump-endorsed, MAGA patriot candidate lawmakers for 2022 to put a permanent stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, also stopping federal interference in the affairs of the sovereign states. The states can do this imo by effectively “seceding” ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (power to vote for federal senators) Amendments.
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped then the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues (imo) that the states can use to increase teacher salaries, also salaries of police and fire departments, also maintain infrastructure for starters.
Insights welcome.
In the meanwhile, Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents in federal and state governments. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
We know that his family is invested in the “Epi-Pen” company, and that favorable regulation allowed them to jack up the price and profit handsomely.
Beyond that, his constituent email newsletter is always brags about bringing federal money to WV for various projects. I suspect there is graft involved ... it seems to be quite common for congressthings.
BTW, back when he was Governor, he was moderate-conservative. NRA gave him an A+ rating, and Governor Manchin actually deserved it based on his actions in office. His horrible leftist record as a senator is quite a departure from his record as a governor. He completely sold out to Schumer.
[We know that his family is invested in the “Epi-Pen” company, and that favorable regulation allowed them to jack up the price and profit handsomely.
Beyond that, his constituent email newsletter is always brags about bringing federal money to WV for various projects. I suspect there is graft involved ... it seems to be quite common for congressthings.
BTW, back when he was Governor, he was moderate-conservative. NRA gave him an A+ rating, and Governor Manchin actually deserved it based on his actions in office. His horrible leftist record as a senator is quite a departure from his record as a governor. He completely sold out to Schumer.]
WHAT did Manchin GET??? A chance to LIVE???
“Politicians aren’t born. They are excreted”.
-— Cicero -—
Violation of equal protection clause.
Did he get his mansion on the beach?
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