Has Joe Manchin found an excuse to destroy President Biden's agenda?
Things seemed to be going so well for Democrats. Progressives and centrists in the House resolved (mostly) their differences over President Biden’s Build Back Better bill, and the separate infrastructure bill passed, to everyone’s delight. It looked like Biden could be heading for a pair of legislative victories that would deliver on a substantial portion of his agenda, and vital steps on pressing problems — affordable child care, health insurance, climate change, even prescription drug prices — would finally be taken.
But now, with new inflation data, the BBB is at risk of destruction. It may be possible that one eternally grumpy Democratic senator — Joe Manchin III of West Virginia — will use inflation as an excuse to kill the most important legislation of Biden’s term.
And it would be an excuse, not a justifiable response to what’s actually happening in the economy and the effect the legislation will have.
Let’s be clear: Inflation is a real problem, though if you looked at the sheer volume of headlines about it over the last week, you’d think it was running at 6000 percent rather than 6 percent. It’s a challenge, not a cataclysm; we’re not pushing wheelbarrows full of cash to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread.
That’s not something the administration can say, because it would make them sound insensitive to people’s real worries and struggles. But right now the blanket media coverage of the issue makes everyone believe things are even worse than they are, as when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer describes genuinely high gas prices by visiting a Washington gas station whose prices are nearly a dollar higher than other stations just blocks away.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/manchin-found-excuse-to-destroy-bidens-agenda/
Manchin does not want to Build Back Better. Manchin does not even want to Make America Great Again. What Manchin wants is to be the focus of media attention.
He has much in common with fellow small-state Senator Lindsey Graham, another attention-seeking chancre on our body politic.
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