Reality Bites, doesn't it Sen. Manchin

[Tommymac]

Link to tweet

Wonder what his reasons will be to explain this one.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thank you for pointing this out, my dear Tommymac!

He'd probably mumble something about national defense helps all of us, or some such malarkey!

[Tommymac]

3. Welcome.

I can see it now...

[UTUSN]

2. K&R

[Fullduplexxx]

4. He'll explain it by saying it's military spending and then threaten the reporter

"You'd do best to change the subject"

[Mr.Bill]

5. I wish that reporter had said

"I'm just getting started."

[Fullduplexxx]

6. Or "that's no answer " or "is that a threat?"

[DanieRains]

7. Manchin Did Vote Against TFG's Billionaire Tax Cut

He does get some credit for that.

It is just hard getting Republiscum in West Virginia to vote for him.

Gotta be a stick in the mud, and make sure you "trash liberals".

[Tommymac]

15. See the Rockefeller's response to Sen Joe.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016303253

Rockefellers have a message for Joe Manchin
Opinion by John D. Rockefeller V, Justin Rockefeller and Valerie Rockefeller
"We were raised in coal country, about two hours south of Sen. Joe Manchin's hometown, with a commitment to public service. Like Sen. Manchin, our father, five-term Sen. Jay Rockefeller, served as secretary of state and governor before being elected to the US Senate. And like Sen. Manchin, our father, who is now retired, has deep respect for the state's legacy of hard work and grit.

Manchin has served our state well. He is a caring and determined leader who we've been honored to know as our father's colleague and friend. Unfortunately, when it comes to our state's future (whether it's the jobs West Virginians will hold or the energy they'll consume), Manchin is sticking with a problematic past by opposing the Senate's $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. Only by supporting that bill can Manchin lead West Virginia boldly into the clean-energy future that will help the people he has been elected to serve.

Manchin could be the deciding vote on the reconciliation bill that would help fund infrastructure projects and a wide array of social programs. The senator expressed his concerns about the bill's price tag in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, yet failed to acknowledge that delaying the reconciliation bill and jeopardizing the infrastructure bill is a dangerous move that could end up costing the entire country, as well as the people of West Virginia.

[lagomorph777]

19. The Rockefellers would be considered flaming commies in today's Reptilian Party.

And probably by a significant chunk of our own politicians.

[IronLionZion]

29. Jay Rockefeller started out as GOP but switched to Dem

since way back in the day WV was a reliably dark blue state.

[lagomorph777]

44. Oops! Thanx!

[certainot]

36. manchin is responding to and enabled by constituencies that flew out of limbaugh's ass

and putin used llimbaugh in 2009 to create 'climategate', created from emails hacked by russians and taken out of context and used as 'proof' global warming is a hoax - just in time to undermine obama at copenhagen and save putin billions in fossil revenue

[Justice matters.]

18. Poll says 70% of WVers (including many who voted for tfg) support BBBBB*.

After pollsters explain in detail what it contains for the working class and the middle class.

*BBBBB: Biden's Build Back Better Bill

[lagomorph777]

20. I've seen poll numbers for it at 77% in WV.

Clearly, Manchin isn't thinking about constituents or votes; he's thinking about cash.

[Justice matters.]

21. Bloomberg, Bezos or any other Dem-leaning billionaire should step up and tell him to refund

his RW donors and that they will donate the same or even more to him.

That said, does he know these numbers? Or does he know by voting nay, he might as well lose his next election?

[lagomorph777]

25. I have to assume he has some conception of what a poll is.

He's a politician.

I agree with your idea, but it would be hard to make it happen.

My thought is to put earmarks in, that would pay fossil fuel companies in WV to build wind farms. He'd get his cut, (a) because he is a fossil fuel company, and (b) his dirty donors would love him for it.

[Justice matters.]

26. I forgot Jay Rockefeller is a Democrat (alright, I didn't know;)))

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=303253

[lagomorph777]

27. Oh! Me too!

[OMGWTF]

32. He's a sociopathic corporate (rhymes with "door").

[jalan48]

8. Big defense budgets have no problem receiving bipartisan approval in our Congress.

[UCmeNdc]

9. K&R

[ancianita]

10. At $7.8 TRILLION in taxes paid every single year X 10, there's MORE than enough to pay for this bill

[Patton French]

11. It may bite..

..but it doesn’t bite him. Just sayin’

[Tommymac]

12. In the long run it will.

We just may not have that much time to save Our Democracy in it's present form.

[IronLionZion]

13. Yet he goes on TV complaining about inflation ruining his state

[Celerity]

22. plus he literally called the bill 'vengeful' taxation, and 'fiscal insanity'

[Champp]

14. k and r

[Sherman A1]

16. Nice Twitter Thing

That and two bucks will by him a cup of coffee......

Hint... Machin does not care one bit.

[Jakes Progress]

17. republicans don't explain.

They don't have to. Their electorate doesn't need reason or rational thought.

He may run as a Democrat, but we know better.

[BeckyDem]

23. Goes hand and hand, Manchin politics:

Lone Democratic senator who stood for Trump's State of the Union applause lines and drew eye-rolls from Chuck Schumer says his party shouldn't 'sit there and frown'

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia was the only Democrat to stand and clap for parts of Donald Trump's State of the Union address
He says his party shouldn't 'sit there and frown' like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did for an hour and 20 minutes on Tuesday night.

When Trump mentioned the U.S. motto 'In God We Trust,' all the Democrats except Manchin sat on their hands

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5335105/Manchin-Democrats-shouldnt-sit-frown.html

[Ferrets are Cool]

24. He doesn't give a shit

All he cares about is HIS political and financial future...not necessarily in that order.

[Xoan]

28. Not enough grift for his family.

[Scrivener7]

30. Explain? He won't explain.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

31. Hey, what's the ETA on those bipartisan-minded

Republican senators you were going to deliver, Joe?

[Ford_Prefect]

33. What makes you think he's reasonable?

His only reasons are those which fill his Cayman account.

[Rhiagel]

34. Must be nice to earn 1/2 million in coal dividends every year.

Must not do anything to disrupt that cash flow.

https://www.businessinsider.com/senator-joe-manchin-half-million-year-coal-stocks-climate-crisis-2021-9

[pandr32]

41. Wow, those bling trust investments aren't really very blind

This is why we need our senators, reps, officials and leaders disinvested into cash positions so they are not serving their portfolios instead of their constituents. Of course, it should also be impossible for unlimited dark money (err...bribes) to fund campaigns and we need tax returns each year.

The responsibility of service should not commingle with the opportunity to enrich oneself.

[Rhiagel]

42. Spot on. And he had the nerve to diss "entitlements."

His dividends are "entitlements." He performed no labor nor shed any drop of sweat for this 1/2 mil other than possibly helping pass laws favorable to the coal industry.

[pandr32]

43. Agreed

He seems to have a whole lot of nerve lately.

[qzwv8j]

35. Midas touch or some group similar

Should put out public service announcements about this….

[Blue Owl]

37. K&R for exposure

[robbob]

38. I'm afraid almost every politician in Washington has voted for every military budget proposed

In American it’s political suicide to even mildly suggest that perhaps the USA doesn’t NEED to spent 10X as much (or whatever it is) then any other country on the planet funding and equipping its armed forces.

[dflprincess]

39. I'm sure he made plenty of money voting for those defense bills

Unfortunately those of us who benefit from the BBB Act, just can't come up with that big a b̶r̶i̶b̶e̶ contribution.

[czarjak]

40. Trump said military service was for suckers and losers. Period.