It was a Miracle!
He saw the Light!
Posted on 08/21/2022 3:33:30 PM PDT by lowbridge
Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin’s agreement late last month to back the disingenuously named Inflation Reduction Act came as a shock to Republicans and likely to members of his own party as well.
Up until then, the West Virginia senator had been the one vote standing between the Democrats’ passage of needless and expensive climate change legislation and fiscal sanity.
In order to secure Manchin’s vote, President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders promised to facilitate the approval of a gas pipeline in West Virginia. This would require passage of legislation that would “overhaul the permitting process for energy infrastructure,” according to The American Prospect, a liberal website.
Then, one day in July, a beaming Manchin joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to announce his support for a $740 billion bill which, contrary to its title, will do nothing to reduce inflation. It will, however, subsidize green energy programs, raise taxes on the middle class, and dramatically expand the size of the IRS.
Apparently, progressives in the House are not keen on supporting a measure that “could undercut the IRA’s down payment on clean energy by accelerating approval for energy projects that could ramp up U.S. fossil fuel production and exports of natural gas,” The American Prospect reported.
The Washington Times reported House Democrats were also angry over being excluded from the negotiations with Manchin.
Thus, they do not plan to honor the agreement.
California Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman, for instance, said he refuses to be “steamrolled into a bunch of fossil fuel giveaways just because Manchin cut a deal in a closed room with Chuck Schumer,” the Times reported.
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Who betrayed who?
To Manchin from his party, courtesy of “Animal House”
“You F#$%ed up, you trusted us.”
Serves him right, and also WV voters who only care about how much pork their boy brings home.
EXPLANATION In smaller words, please??
WVA voters are his useful idiots. He tells them what they want to hear.
Putting a democrat in a senate seat helps the democrats control the senate and the agenda. No way you can vote for a democrat and not be evil.
Manchin destroyed his political career when he capitulated with Schumer. He is toast.
wow! i never saw that coming
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Manchin met with Bill Gates.
He saw the light.
No problem, he’ll pose with guns and they’re be hordes posting that he’s a Conservative.
It’s all about second and third Fortunes.
See Pence and Cheney
He’s probably getting something privately that’s untraceable.
Poetic justice on Joe Manchin and all of the conservative voters in West Virginia who KNEW better than to vote for anyone in the Democrat party.
Sometimes we only learn through our mistakes.
He's 74.
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Grassley is like 88 and running for his next six years.
Manchin isn’t quitting with money on the table
Perhaps this betrayal was agreed to in advance by all parties, and Manchin will be rewarded by other means. Politics is theater.
Very true.
He isn't running for higher office, either.
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Mitch McConnell is 80.
Grassley is 88
Bernie Sanders is 80-81
Manchin knew.
He always folds with plausible deniability.
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