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Manchin and the GOP Dupes (Eager for home-state subsidies, they left the door open for his deal with Schumer.)
WSJ ^ | 7/28/22 | Kimberly A Strassel

Posted on 07/30/2022 7:41:45 AM PDT by Pollard

If good policy makes for good politics, the reverse is also true. Senate Republicans proved that in spades this week, as their lust for home-state handouts paved a runway for President Biden’s long-sought climate, tax and healthcare agenda.

Seventeen Republicans on Wednesday helped Democrats pass a $280 billion subsidy blowout for the semiconductor industry. The bill is an embarrassing stew of accountability-free corporate welfare and government spending. This is the priority Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in June vowed to hold hostage so long as Democrats still had the Biden reconciliation agenda—formerly Build Back Better—on the table. Instead, encouraged that West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin continued to block that front, Republicans figured they might as well cash in.

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1 posted on 07/30/2022 7:41:45 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Pollard

The GOP puts “Kick Me” signs on their own backs , again


2 posted on 07/30/2022 7:43:50 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Pollard

Washington DC two card monte.

How many more times will we have to watch the GOPe get “duped” by those wily democrats?


3 posted on 07/30/2022 7:45:48 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Pollard

Not the Stupid Party, the Complicit Party


4 posted on 07/30/2022 7:47:05 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Pollard

Seventeen Republicans on Wednesday helped Democrats pass a $280 billion subsidy blowout

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The GOP can always be counted on help out the Democrats. Funny how it never works the other way.


5 posted on 07/30/2022 7:48:13 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The “Reach Across the Isle to Give the Other Side What they Want” Party.

The GOP’s favorite word is ‘bipartisan’.

The Dems favorite word is ‘unilateral’.


6 posted on 07/30/2022 7:51:02 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: butlerweave
The GOP is kicking it all away. There may be no red wave at all.
7 posted on 07/30/2022 7:56:28 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: butlerweave

NUKE those POS!! NUKE’EM!!!


8 posted on 07/30/2022 7:59:32 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Not the Stupid Party, the Complicit Party
Some of the Neanderthals around here calling/wishing for Manchin to switch parties aren't any better.
9 posted on 07/30/2022 8:02:53 AM PDT by lewislynn (Trump accomplished more in one term than any one President in your lifetime.)
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To: Pollard

Bypass the paywall: https://archive.ph/DKooM


10 posted on 07/30/2022 8:07:01 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: upchuck

I didn’t hit a paywall but I guess some people are? So it’s good to have the archive version.


11 posted on 07/30/2022 8:09:36 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Truth29

“The GOP is kicking it all away. There may be no red wave at all.”

There doesn’t need to be much of a “wave” for Republicans to take back the House so that could still happen, but Democrats aren’t going to sit back and just simply allow any part of their total control of the U.S. Government to be taken from them.

As far as the Senate though.... Mitch McConnell must be greatly relieved that he won’t need to deal with the expectations of being *Majority* Leader ever again.


12 posted on 07/30/2022 8:15:11 AM PDT by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: Pollard

Totally shocked and for those of us who left the republican party after the Bush years - to only return forPresident Trump are quite frankly long done with this nonsense….McConnell wept like a baby at Dirty Harry Reid funeral

Graham (R-SC)
Hagerty (R-TN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Portman (R-OH)
Romney (R-UT)
Sasse (R-NE)
Tillis (R-NC)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)m
Blunt (R-MO)
Burr (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)


13 posted on 07/30/2022 8:22:05 AM PDT by ALX
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HOUND THEM EVERY DAMN DAY.....Call every office they have!


14 posted on 07/30/2022 8:36:28 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: butlerweave

DEMOCRATS ARE LAWLESS BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE BALLLESS!


15 posted on 07/30/2022 8:36:56 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

They don’t give a shit if WE hound them, they don’t give a shit about us PERIOD!! Wasted time calling them THEY DONT CARE!!


16 posted on 07/30/2022 8:40:42 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Pollard

If a bear can smell food 5 miles away a Rino can smell money 50 miles away money whores do have a keen sense of smell.


17 posted on 07/30/2022 8:57:55 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Pollard

Party affiliation not withstanding, congress critters think their #1 job is to return the max to their districts from the county’s largesse. If they just so happen to enrich themselves in the process so much the better.


18 posted on 07/30/2022 8:58:07 AM PDT by No Party Affiliation
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To: PermaRag
I wonder if the GOP will even take the House. The enthusiasm is shifting to the radical left.
19 posted on 07/30/2022 9:02:21 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Pollard

“Meanwhile, the GOP blew its one bit of leverage against the bigger Biden spending bill—which may now prove unstoppable. Democrats had been demoralized and divided, with this week’s headlines all about House infighting over a policing bill. That’s been replaced with an agreement that will revive enthusiasm among the left’s core constituencies, including the green activists and union foot soldiers who are crucial to election mobilization.”

Effin McConnell. The Old Crow. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Frog and scorpion.

*spit*


20 posted on 07/30/2022 10:47:57 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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