Posted on 04/30/2023 4:41:57 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
Let’s make this very clear: Sen. Manchin knew exactly what he was voting to do when he cast the deciding vote on the Orwellian-named Inflation Reduction Act last August. He knew exactly what was in the bill; after all, he had been negotiating every provision in it across the previous 12 months, delaying and blocking and objecting to myriad paragraphs and sentences contained in it.
Nor is it believable that the Senator has somehow been caught by surprise by the aggressive interpretations of various IRA provisions by the EPA and various other Biden administration bureaucracies.
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This pretense that he somehow had a “deal” with the White House on how those provisions would be put into action is really just silly. It’s now how any of this works, and he knows it.
The truth about Sen. Manchin is that few political figures in American history have surrendered so much leverage and political power for so little in return than he did when he caved into the demands of Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and cast his vote for the IRA. Before that vote, he was without any question the single most powerful member of not just the Senate, but the entire congress. But after the vote, his leverage surrendered without anything concrete in return, his power was gone.
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Manchin is suddenly worried about the Polls, and FOX and Sean Hannity have rushed in to make him look like a Victim!
Ask yourself why FOX and Hannity want Manchin to stay in power.
Manchin is a stage 4 ringpiece and the good people of West Virginia should...oh never mind.
Hannity is a tool for the left.
Norway had one Quisling but Amerika has thousands.
Anthony, you’re spot on. This is no different than when Obama needed the final vote to get Obamacare passed. Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana was that final vote. She all the sudden received over $300 million dollars, she voted, and then she retired after it passed.
>> Manchin’s a dirtbag...Sean Hannity [has] rushed in to make him look like a Victim!
Dirtbags like Hannity and Manchin gotta stick together.
Cucks cuck
And where did the 300 million come from?!
Either that or the fix was in all along and he was permitted to do some poor theater (that of being "moderate", for example) before the deciding vote.
My guess is that Manchin is THE flim-flam man of the senate, and the good people of West Virginia still haven't caught on.
Brandon made Manchin an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Good to see David Blackmon writing again. We need him.
he is toast anyway
Old Joe pretends to be a moderate, but is anything but.
I think Slow Joe Manchin pinned that kick me note on his own back.
Manchin got Schumered. He believed Schumer would use KY and not renege.
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