I’m not confident that Joe Manchin will ultimately hold the line on more spending; however, it is interesting that on the same day Manchin is reported to be casting doubt on more Joe Biden social spending {LINK}, the Washington Post published a hitjob on him around his family finances {LINK}.
Accepting there are no coincidences in politics, it would appear the intelligence agencies are firing a warning shot against Senator Manchin based on his financial connections to the West Virginia coal industry.
(New York Times) – WASHINGTON — Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, the most prominent Democratic holdout on President Biden’s $2.2 trillion social safety net, climate and tax bill, cast fresh doubt on Monday on his party’s plans to speed the measure through the Senate before Christmas, saying he still had grave concerns about how it would affect the economy.
Mr. Manchin outlined his skepticism before speaking by telephone about the bill with Mr. Biden, a discussion that aides to both later characterized as positive. After the call, Mr. Manchin, who represents West Virginia, did not rule out the possibility of supporting the measure this month. He said that “anything is possible here” when asked about a vote before Christmas, and that he was still “engaged” in conversations with the White House.
But in a 50-50 Senate where Democrats would need all of their party’s votes to push through the legislation over unanimous Republican opposition, Mr. Manchin’s reluctance to embrace it has helped freeze the measure in place. (read more)
Every article written about the Build Back Better/Social Spending/Green New Deal bill, carries a totally different price tag. The New York Times says $2.2 trillion. Politico said $1.6 trillion, and other media like CBS have put the figure around $3 trillion. Regardless, Joe Manchin has reservations about it.
Those reservations have apparently triggered the ‘six ways to Sunday‘ deep state….
(Washington Post) – In Sen. Joe Manchin III’s hilly West Virginia home county, his family’s business has made millions by taking waste coal from long-abandoned mines and selling it to a power plant that emits air pollution at a higher rate than any other plant in the state.
That enterprise could have taken a hit under a key part of President Biden’s climate agenda, a $150 billion plan to push coal plants toward cleaner energy. One lawmaker, though, played a central role in killing that proposal: Manchin, who has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars annually from the family coal company while using his role as a Democratic swing vote in a 50-50 Senate to dictate Biden’s policies.
When pressed about whether he has a conflict of interest, Manchin bristles. “I have been in a blind trust for 20 years. I have no idea what they’re doing,” the senator told reporters in September, referring to his family’s coal firm. “You got a problem?”
But contrary to his public statements, documents filed by the senator show the blind trust is much too small to account for all his reported earnings from the coal company, as of his latest financial disclosure report, which covers 2020 and was filed in May. (read more)
Nice investment portfolio you have there Joe, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.
Manchin being targeted because:
1) not going along with crazy spending
2) not going along with green new deal
3) is Democrat who is not willing to support progressive movement
4) willing to speak to republicans and negotiate with them.
5) could be a Dem POTUS candidate willing to support Americans and middle class.
If the Post were sincere in their concern over financial interests they would pursue Pelosi, Biden’s, Clinton’s, Gores etc.
These folks never ran a business, built a product or hired hundreds of employees on their way to multimillion dollar assets.
Unlike these folks, Manchin came into office with his primary asset.
He is up for re-election in 2024 (must look like he tried to stop extreme democrat crap and be moderate)
If he loses in 2024 He must make enough money to surive the rest of his life (this is completed via his wife’s deals)
His wife is the Co-Chair of Appalachia – BBB has endless money slotted for building this back up – she will make deals
The ‘globalists’ have been controlling their minions for decades, whether through blackmail due to sex practices, financial practices, or some other illicit activity. How interesting that we now see this in real time, publicly. Manchin has threatened to step over the line, so WAPO reminds him that, unless he is a good boy, his darkest secrets will be revealed. It’s too bad that alternative media doesn’t have a handle on the real criminals here….the pedophiles and sex traffickers in government, the judiciary and elite society, and just dump all that info for the public to see what’s really going on. By the way, El Salvador, the home of MS13 and a major player in sex trafficking, has just adopted crypto has their national currency. Crypto has been instrumental in money laundering for some time. Interesting.
I think Assange and Snowden dumped some of the info you mentioned, and may have lots more, hence…
I’m hearing you loud and clear, 5:5. Disgusting optics, and revolting odor of corruption that screams at heaven for retribution. I’m seeing that they’re only fueled by their own arrogance. You’d think that the falling poll numbers would have sent clear warnings to them that the jig is up? But they just double-down and do this to Manchin? I’m thinking, their flattening is coming shortly. Stand by for the shock waves.
Traditional monetary functions still dominate illegal activities. Maybe in a decade your statement will be true.
El Salvador, home of MS13, human trafficking, drug cartels etc., has decided not to limit themselves to your timeline. Crypto is instrumental in money laundering now. So is traditional money. If you re read my post, you’ll see I didn’t discuss ‘domination’.
There was a movie once where the Brits, post-WW2, got the Matt Damon character to kill one of their own because he was a homosexual, the idea being it made him vulnerable to enemy blackmail.
I think they quickly leaned, though, to prefer homosexuals for elected office for the same reason. And incidentally because some of their own were and are still in the closet.
Build what Back where Better how. If Manchin and Sienna don’t cave you can bet China Mitch will make a sweet deal for one or more of his lame RINO’s to support the cause. Trillions are at stake you can bet on it.
This has been my fear all along.
I think there are 50 votes out there. We are in kabuki mode right now, seeing where those final votes will come from. My bet is on retiring RINO Republicans who don’t give a crap if they don’t get enough from the Dems.
Blunt.
A completely worthless POS.
As a resident of Missouri, I concur. And if Sinema goes along with Manchin I suspect Susan Collins of Maine will cross the aisle and let heels up Harris cast the deciding vote
Burr
And would do it just to spite the Great Unwashed like us.
Did you mean Sinema, vice Sienna?
Bezos has to be at the top of this one.
If you mean driving the hit-piece, I think it’s external. Bezos would just be a conduit, which makes him a useful idiot. A very rich one, but a useful idiot nonetheless.
Yes, anything for the cause; they are ‘all in.’
Jesus was often scathing about the hypocrisy, greed and self indulgence of the Jewish leaders.
He did not mince his words, “You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!”
The media today rush to defend politicians who are in every way like the Jewish leaders two thousand years ago.
Search for the visualizations of the US debt on the demonocracy dot info website to see the astronomical amounts that the US government wants to pretend can be materialized out of thin air and will not cost a cent.
Hmm. Maybe by now they realize the corporation is bankrupt, so what’s another bad check, i.e. “at this point, what does it matter?”
There’s one weapon he has, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/west-virginia-president-results
If Manchin had any brains, he’d switch parties.
reminds me of “clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.” It has indeed become such a comedy farce. None of it’s real. They know it. We know it. But they are insane and cannot help themselves. They want us to come in with the straight-jackets, but they will fight us like hell in spite of themselves. It’s high weirdness.
Demcommies know if Manchin ever switches Parties, they would lose their last bit of hold on West Virginia and the US Senate. Manchin gets anything he wants for West Virginia from the Demcommies. They hate him but they need him more than they hate him.
McConnell will come through for the Demcommies because he is badly compromised and irritatingly stupid about the realities around him.
Great point in a REAL FAIR NORMAL WORLD.
but if the following exist – there is ZERO chace of that
1) Dominion Voting
2) Kelly Loeffners staff death
3) Jim Jordan’s Nephew’s death
4) Gov Kemp daughter’s boyfriends’ death
in a sane world – Machin could say NO and switch parties and stay a senator longer. unfortunately his wife is the co-chair of Appalachia – where Biden has pocketed bribery money in the BBB Bill for her to get her to get Machine to vote YEs.
( he is only looking like he is against it – TO hedge 2 bets! – to get the money! and to possibly win again in 2024)
#2 and #4 refer to the same man from a Republican family killed near Pooler, Ga. in a mysterious and deadly auto accident. There have been several mysterious and deadly accidents, for example Michael Hastings. The press has not followed up on investigations, wonder why?
4 was immediately after Kemp expressed approval for a meaningless recount in GA. The kid had a fender bender “accident” that threw the engine block 50 feet and left the car and his body burned beyond recognition. Nothing to see here. Just a little c-4 residue. Not to mention the 2017 shooting of Steve Scalise whose condition abruptly deteriorated from stable to critical (I watched it on CNN. Even they were shocked) at which point Trump intervened. He was being treated in the same hospital and by the same doctor who “treated ” Seth Rich who was reportedly alert and walking under his own power after being shot. The evil ones play for keeps
I watched Scalise whip horrible Boehner/Ryan bills that screwed patriots, for years. I wasn’t sad that he got shot.
The good citizens of WV should have been made aware of this financial impropriety during the 2018 Senate election, where Manchin eked out a win over the Republican challenger only because a Libertarian candidate split the vote. The question is always “why now?”
Wake up America! The press is part of the brown shirts and you will follow the party line or else as Senator Manchin will be finding out.
Manchin voted to convict PDJT in the sham impeachment trial, among many other attacks on middle America. Fwiw, i hope he and the other members of the DC Cartel destroy each other in an internecine war. Pass the popcorn.
Thanks for saying. Some are already making a hero out of him, but I remember like you have, and for me it’s “wait awhile,” on laurels for Manchin.
I don’t think Manchin is going to “cave.” Nor do I wonder if he is going to “hold the line.”
He is just a politician trying to extort whoever to better himself and his finances.
I would bet the ranch on Manchin folding like a cheap Chinese suit.
Too bad someone has not sued WAPO right out of business. They are a dangerous socialist rag.
I think James O’Keefe is working on it. 😉
Communist. imo.
I would like to know what the grand total of gubt spending is on bottled water, in plastic bottles. And I do mean all gubt spending. Federal state and locals. Perhaps if they cut that out, since it is a totally unnecessary and frivolous expenditure, they might be able to afford their BBB, and they would be doing the planet, that they claim to care for so much, some real good.
If you want water bring your own.
My first question to the WaPo would be, “What do you mean by ‘air pollution’? Probably not particulate emissions, as mandated scrubbers clean those up. Are you, then, talking about carbon dioxide? Plants would be shocked…
My next question would be “How are all of the other plants in the state fueled?”
I see articles that purport to give information but don’t on both sides of the political spectrum, and it is really frustrating.
I have no idea what a “religious exemption to adopt” might be. Can you enlighten me?
Do a search for it.
Some states have religious exemption laws for adoption. The LGBTQ demographic is upset and calling them discriminatory since a faith-based adoption agency could deny their application.
The laws vary by state. Don’t know how it would apply to Justice Barrrett.
Joe Machin, his wife and his daughter all walk in a dark shadow insofar as profiting from political appointments. This has been well known for years. If we peons were aware of this, and WaPo is just now reporting, it is further proof U.S. media is corrupted at the core and legitimately owns to belong to the fake news consortium.
Surely, by now they know how disgusting their optics are? And now this? Didn’t plummeting approval ratings send a clear enough message? Holy cow. We did our part. What more do we have to do short of dragging them out to the streets? Now God.
Kind of reminds me of a Phil Ochs tune……
Ringing of Revolution
In my younger days, the Fourth Branch of government was identified as the press. WaPo is a partisan check on how certain Congresscritters vote. Nothing new here.
Are the intel agencies a Fifth branch of government or the the dirty cops on the mob’s payroll?
All of these politicians are actors making millions hand over fist.
None of them have the least concern for us nor the Country only in as much as it profits them personally.
Most of Americans aren’t even listening any more they sense government is entirely corrupt out of control and an absolute sham.
Whether it’s Pelosi, Liz, Schumer, Mitch and now Manchin it’s all more of the same rotation.
No one knows how much this boondoggle will cost. It is written to force the CBO to score only five years of expenses but, account for ten years of tax revenues along with many other things designed to hide the decline built into it. Is the provision to report all financial transactions in excess of $600 still there? If Manchin’s coal company and I assume other coal companies are going to “take a hit” from having to spend money to clean up emissions, then what exactly is the $150 Billion going to be spent on in order to help push them into doing this? It kills me the way they write this dribble. Painting him as one of Gaia’s biggest destroyers scavenging waste coal and selling it to the highest emitting coal plant on earth like some dark Joker character in a Batman movie.
Look up the WA PO 8/24/16 article “How a senator’s daughter became CEO of the company at the center of the EpiPen Controversy”..
“I have been in a blind trust for 20 years. I have no idea what they’re doing,”
I SMELL A REAL STINKER…
You’re and idiot if you think this POS is good for anything….
The Wapo……open-source mouthpiece of that certain alphabet organization.
All ridiculous theater, Manchin playing power games, WaPo/left establishment making a countermove. Nothing curious about it, any more than it was curious that the “Omicron Variant” was “discovered” in S. Africa two days after the government there refused more Pfizer non-vaccines. Politics is power games regardless of the context
Something you just can say enough…
The “thing you are not supposed to notice” about politics…
In the past 47 years or 24 secessions of Congress every bill or resolution that has made it out of committee on on to the floor has been passed into law. Irregardless of the political party in control, the president in the oval office, or the mixture and combination of parties in control or the pro or con side of the parties at hand.
Not one SINGLE Bill or Resolution brought to vote has EVER ONCE FAILED to become law in 47 years! They are simply recycled until they do.
That’s about all you need to understand about the Uniparty, it does not matter who you vote for or what party is in control or who is in what office.
Those that argue you can “primary” out RINOs have absolutely no understanding of our government and how it works. It is nothing but a two party political con job to keep the American people thinking they have a side or choice… You don’t.
We will never “elect” our way out of this… To believe so is naive of history, flatly ignorant and incredibly stupid. Nothing will change until we get that through our thick hopeless heads.
Media is corrupt … politicians are corrupt … Deep State is corrupt … but all are OK as long as they tow the liberal line. But don’t step out of line …
Senator Manchin may need a call from Americans from any state to say thank you for holding the line under intense pressure. He is showing more intestinal fortitude on this matter than our own GOP leadership. He is the first domino. If he falls they will give in easily.
AMERICA soon to be the new GULAG…………………….brandon and the DC/World elites are destroying our nation !!!
I’ve seen this act before.
Senema and Joe M. Do this routine of high drama at least once or twice a year.
They are holding the countries well being in their precious powerful hands, and we all get giddy
That they are going to do the right thing.
But alas they never do !
So I’m tired of these two
Drama queens !
So we know, they know he won’t vote for it. A hit piece by the WaPo should be a badge of honor. It means they are gunning for you. He should come out and say publicly. “I will not be influenced by a rag like the WaPo. ” They are not a fact-based news organization that uses reliable sources, or has an ounce of journalistic integrity, it is the media arm of Bezos, the richest guy in the world depending on the Wall Street ticker during the day.
Every congressman has the same kind of “conflict of interest”, including Nancy Pelosi.
But the Washington Post and owner Bezos conflicts of interest. Who decides which one is the target today? Got ad money, much. Nice CIA cloud contract you got there, Bezos. Be a shame if something happened to it.
I’ve have written to multiple Senators, both sides of the aisle, and asked them why they are supporting such reckless spending, fully understanding that much of that writing effort is fruitless. However, Ballotpedia has a list of Senators up for election in 2022, and all of us have access to reach their inboxes. Let them know how you feel about the prodigious and wasteful budget. They will be receiving emails from me.
There is no way Manchin does not vote in favor of the bill. No way.
I have grave doubts that Manchen will vote against Build Back Better. I think he’s just holding out for some undisclosed quid quo pro and will vote for the terrible bill.