If he had shown some actual leadership he could have gotten parts of his agenda passed. A big part of being an effective leader is setting priorities and recognizing that you can't necessarily get every last thing on the wish list. Now the green energy/electric car incentives have crashed and burned because the Democrats couldn't resist the urge to spend trillions of dollars opening tax loopholes for the wealthy and writing checks to illegal immigrants. |
100% agree. Defund the police, pronoun day, and referring to pregnant mothers as "birthing persons" aint going to bring down inflation, prevent my car window from getting smashed, nor prevent Russia from hacking our pipelines. |
They crafted this bill like the fat kid in the candy shop and are absolutely astonished it didn't pass. ![]() Like maybe ONE of their initiatives would have been historic. But all of it at once was asking for failure. ![]() |
Wow someone is off their meds and sock puppeting like crazy.
Alternative scary thought: There actually ARE two of you. |
I called it months ago: Manchin is not acting in good faith.
Now we know I was right all along. Plus, now we also knew he sold out to Republican corporate interests at the heart of the anti-Biden PR and lobbying blitz for $1.5m. https://www.accountable.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-09-20-Sen.-Manchin-Support-From-Corporate-Reconciliation-Opponents-FINAL.pdf Democrats keep bringing sternly worded letters of concern to the knife fight. Republicans keep bringing illegally modified AR-15s to the knife fight. It's long past time for Democrats to start fighting back, HARD. |
With all due respect if you disagree, but I think there are many Americans who are opposed to the absurd BBB cost of trillions. |
Alternative thoughts - he's the only Democrat to acknowledge the fiscal inflation numbers of 6.8% and acting like we're staring at a economic crisis ON TOP OF a pandemic crisis. IDK why the liberal dems thought now was the time for historic social welfare legislation. We've had a million people DIE from a viral pandemic in the last 15 months, let's focus on that. Damn. |
Democrats are just generally extremely greedy. They got their unnecessary 1.9 trillion "covid" bill that pumped money into the economy and ignited inflation. They should just take that as a win and the BIF bill. |
There is absolutely no way a legislator from a teeny worthless sh!+ hole state like WV should have the power to derail a bill popular with those from states that make America the world leader it is. Primary him, if for nothing else than to punish him and those who put him in office.
That said this is also on Joe and his incredible lack of leadership. He was elected because he’s not trump and well he’s not trump but that’s about it. The Party is rudderless. Disgusting. |
He's the only 'Democrat' in West Virginia who can win national elected office. He loses tomorrow, its a Republican senator. He goes into a coma tomorrow, its a Republican senator. Why? Because West Virginia is a Republican state led by a Republican governor. |
Maybe Dems should have been pushing for universal healthcare instead. But hey, it's mostly Trump supporters who didn't get vaccinated who are dying. *shrug* |
Him and his supporters in WV are useless anyway so it’ll be a wash. |
Wow. How elitist of you. And, it wasn't one person who was against this bill. It was 51. Or, maybe more. |
Good for Manchin….finally an adult in the room. |
Manchin is the fall guy but i bet there was a bunch of other moderate vulnerable senators that didn't want to vote for massive entitlements. |