Two weeks ago, CTH warned everyone that Joe Manchin’s torpedoing of the $500 billion Green New Deal senate spending program was a head fake; he was always going to sign up to expand the control of the federal government over energy use. Today Manchin and Chuck Schumer made it official.
The people operating the “energy transition” levers will get $370 billion to spend on bigger windmills, more solar panels and new energy programs to eliminate coal, oil and natural gas. They will pay for it by raising taxes and hiring a new army of IRS enforcement officials. In exchange for his vote, the federal government will pay increased health insurance subsidies for West Virginians and pass out lower priced medications.
There you go. Exactly as predicted. Energy inflation will continue as the energy transition becomes a permanent feature. Ironically, Joe Manchin made them change the name to “The Inflation Reduction Act,” and pushed the effective dates for all renewals past the 2024 election (where he plans to be a candidate against Gavin Newsom).
WASHINGTON – Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday reached a deal on a bill that includes energy and tax policy, a turnaround after the two deadlocked earlier this month in talks on Democrats’ marquee party-line agenda. In a joint statement, the two Democrats said the legislation will be on the Senate floor next week. It includes roughly $370 billion in energy and climate spending.
[…] The duo said their bill, dubbed “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” would “fight inflation, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing, and reduce carbon emissions by roughly 40 percent by 2030.” Moreover, as part of the agreement announced Wednesday, Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to pass legislation governing energy permits.
[…] Democrats will raise revenues for the legislation by imposing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax, increasing IRS enforcement, reducing drug prices and closing the so-called carried interest loophole. Notably, the legislation also extends the Affordable Care Act subsidies through the 2024 election and the first term of Joe Biden’s presidency, taking a big political headache off the table for Democrats. (more)
Look deeper into the people in Joe Manchin’s life that are tied to the healthcare industry. There you will find the familial beneficiaries of the deal. “Besides being Joe Manchin’s daughter, Heather Manchin Bresch, born 1969, spent several years as the CEO of Netherlands-based pharmaceutical company Mylan. She held the post from 2012, but stood down in November 2020, as a result of the company’s merging with Pfizer’s Upjohn outfit. Upon assuming the role, Heather Mamchin became the first woman to run a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company.” LINK
The scheming strategery of Joe Manchin is as predictable as the scheming strategery of Mitch McConnell.
The two wings of the UniParty duck seem still on the surface. This type of ploy is exactly how DC is able to operate, paddling forward furiously, just below the surface; and almost no one can see what is happening.
Once you see the strings on the political marionettes, you can never return to that moment in the performance when you did not see them. However, because too few people see them, almost everyone congregates in the lobby during the mid-term intermission asking, “hey, when did Texas become dependent on windmills?”
May Joe Manchin and his supporters choke on this. Very publicly too, while they’re at it.
Screw Manchin and all his horses.
Sink his yacht.
Joe Manchin’s character can be summed up by the fact he pushed though legislation allowing his
daughter, Heather Manchin Bresch, to triple and quadruple epipen prices … and mandate all elementary schools to have one of every epipen in case of an emergency – the majority of those taxpayer funded epipens expired – and were thrown away.
While panicked parents had to figure out how to afford their child’s lifesaving epipen … Heather became an overnight multi-millionaire.
The demonRAT daddy way.
I keep telling those on the right to stop singing the praises of Manchin, Sinema, and the like when they do ONE thing that is out of the ordinary. There is no social consequence (the media ensures this) for them voting almost 90% with their party. Coal industry be damned! They will still call these carnival barkers “moderates”. Wasn’t Dementia Joe considered a moderate not too long ago? A Some people will never get it.
https://compactmag.com/article/they-can-t-let-him-back-in
We are careening towards it. We must wake up as many as possible. There are many more of us than in 2016 (and before who caused 2016) but still there are those who simply can’t believe. I see it when I speak about fertilizer bans and reduction and the sustainability of eating crickets. People just can’t fathom this evil and greed. They cannot fathom, despite evidence year after year, that they elect people who betray them, who lie to them and then simply vote for their personal self interests at the cost of creating absolute misery for us. They are busy working and living and so don’t pay attention to the thousand little cuts. How did these absolute lunatics become preschool teachers with their piercings and blue hair teaching little children that the doctor guessed that he/she was a boy/girl when he/she was born? It comes as a surprise to us but in reality it has been a process of years in the making. The time is now. The fight is now. The precipice is upon us. If you aren’t mentioning Sri Lanka and the Netherlands to people every day you are missing an opportunity to educate people. Mention eating crickets and see the response.