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?”
Is this subject to a Republican filibuster in the Senate?
It’s a reconciliation bill. Nope.
They’re breaking up the green raw deal into a series of smaller pieces.
Frog boil.
…fade to Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs…
Flatt….two t’s…durn spell wrong Che k
Look on the bright side, corporations would never pass those high taxes on to the consumers.
Oh wait!!
I think they have been colluding with the big conglomerates to pass it along, seeing how prices have been spiking again this last week. They already knew what was coming. (Democrats raising taxes in this new scam bill.)
On two different products, in Krogers, Safeway and $ stores, I am finding they only have the “name brand” now, no more generic.
If I want strawberry jelly in this town, its Smuckers or NOTHING, and only OREOS, not similar cookies.
I think they are wiping out “the little guys” probably due to supply disruptions, and the big guys being able to hedge.
IIRC, Sundance wrote about this, and now I am seeing, or actually NOT seeing, the result.
In many cases the so-called generic brands are really the name brands packaged generically and labeled as the store’s own brand ( as in Great Value for Walmart and Kirkland for Costco). These are sold to the stores under specific contracts. That way the manufacturers compete only against themselves and reach customers at different price points.
Sometimes but not always the formula for the product may be different. Sometimes it is exactly the same.
This is also true for pharmaceuticals. The name brands often manufacture their own generic secretly.
Made a trip to Costco yesterday. Purchased the usual; canned peas & green beans, pecans, canned chicken, popcorn, wine. No beef, no fish. $311 and some change. The good news; gas @ $3.49 a gallon. (If you can call that good)
Sad thing are those small mom and pop operations that will cease operating instead..only leaving us with the colluding mutinational corporations.
Alternative economy. Small will still exist but not be cooperating with the regime.
We saw this in the 30’s. We got a taste of it with speakeasy operations through the back door during the Covid op that was actively destroying small business.
Some of us will simply go Heemeyer and let the chips fall where they may. IOW, war.
Now if just ‘1’ Democrat fails to show up for that vote…..
Grease every handrail and set of steps in the DC area
I was thinking that earlier today myself. They’ve let in enough illegal aliens we’re already staring at the next 911. We might not even have a chance to have the civil war they so obviously want from us.
Why so much hate for the voters of WV? Many on this site were praising Joe Manchin like he was some kind of moderate hero saving the country?
I’ve been voting for decades in WV. I know more about Joe than most of you and I have never voted for that phoney.
I never voted for Rino Capito either.
To all the negative WV haters on here I want to sincerely apologize for the sorry Joe Manchin and Shelly Moore Capito. I can’t explain how they got elected? After all Joe sent me a letter stating that the 2020 election was totally legitimate and fair?
Can all you haters explain to us ignorant WV voters what your own wonderful senators have done for you lately?
It’s easy to explain. Your state is very poor. Joe fetches from the trough and buys the votes. This deal will keep the goodies coming (the following is a bit dated, but you get the picture):
https://www.opposingviews.com/category/study-shows-west-virginia-receives-most-federal-aid
WV voters are macro conservative, but micro lib.
Oh hey…what did Obama promise to do to coal mining in those parts?
He promised to bankrupt them with regulations. Hillary promised to put coal miner’s out of work when Joe Manchin was campaigning for Hillary in WV.
What a phony Manchin is!
So you’re telling me that:
Joe is bringing home some very expensive bacon and Shelly is whipping it up in the pan. So voters don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them.
I’m sure that is one single issue of many that influences voters in any state.I am convinced that our government is corrupt and that elections are rigged. No one will ever make me believe that Joe Biden won in 2020.
It’s not helpful to attack an entire state of voters when many of us never voted for Manchin. You get more bees with honey than you do with smoke. Ridicule if you must. Please use a rifle and not a shotgun!
It’s not a shot at everyone, it’s a statement of fact. Enough of you like Manchin enough. Not enough of you don’t.
It’s not the single issue, it’s the DEFINING issue. His voters are like abused wives who won’t leave. Why else would they continue to empower one who so demeans them.
Everything named for Byrd will be renamed for Manchin /s
Mostly nothing.
They have done nothing good.
They cheat in elections.
And have arranged it so there are no real consequences for the cheating.
Flaunting the cheating now.
Most of the praise I see for Manchin by conservatives has not been on this site. People here are red pilled and don’t buy the media narratives that fool the typical Fox viewer. My view is that McConnell and the republican senatorial campaign committee have seen to it that Manchin keep his senate seat. I’ve always thought he was a slimeball. He checks all of the boxes needed to be a slimy politician, including his unqualified daughter heading a major pharma company.
I always saw him as a wheeler dealer and not at all praiseworthy.
I live in IL.
You want me to do, what????
Right now, Duckie and Durbin are MIA
Aggiegirl I to am in IL and yeah this ish show with those two dummies supposedly representing us.
Again, it doesn’t matter who the people “vote” for, elections have been mostly rigged for the last 20 years. The only thing that matters is who counts the votes and who controls the vote tabulation machines.
Our two Democrats in Oregon have really done nothing substantial and only anything which virture signals to their base and from which they personally profit. One actually resides in New York, only uses his long standing family residence here for appearances, visiting Oregon when it suits him.
With Brown terming out, and given the vast majority of geographically conservative counties in Oregon, and an impending red wave, I’ll be curious to see how well the all mail-in system holds back the tide. I don’t believe there’s been a GOP governor or GOP majority since the mail-in system was voted in.
What we can do is keep the Commies from Portland, Salem and Eugene from infiltrating the rest of the state. They’re trying. It’s an ongoing fight. I especially worry about Medford due to the drug trafficking there; it’s easy for the Commies to get a foothold with drugs.
1979-87 the last Republican was governor.
Between the growth of the leftist mass in the Portland-Eugene coridor coupled with the exclusive statewide mail in voting the dems have had a lock on governor and the super majority in Salem for some time.
Im sure its all legitimate with honest mail-in ballot counting. /s
A GOP win for Drazen for governor would be a quite welcome surprise.
It would remain to be seen how effective she might be.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-manchin-wife-joe-biden-appointment-5acad530bb9ff8046ab60e756124010c
After reading this article, it seems that the Manchins are in pretty good agreement with Biden.
Even as Biden was trying to get the $15 min. wage,
which Manchin blocked,
Manchin’s wife was named to head The Appalachian Regional Commission (economic development board).
You don’t suppose that having her on an economic dev’t board means that she hands out gov’t money and generates “campaign donations”,
do you??
Of course, she would counter that her pay is a mere $ 163,000.
uh-huh…
So what is your point? That we’re supposed to give WV voters credit for this clownish, corrupt, fake? But you’re right Republican voters in a lot of states have a lot to answer for. But if people are upset at WV, its because they expect better and they’re puzzled why WV votes for Trump 60-40, then gives us Manchin. But then why did Utah vote Trump twice, and then elect Romney? Why did Alabama vote for Trump, then vote for Doug Jones? why does kentucky keep electing McConnell? Why does Texas keeping electing Coryn? Why does SC keep giving us Miss Lindsey or Alasaka “lisa Murkey”
I dunno whats in the head of someone who would vote for Trump, and then vote for manchin or these RINO clowns. Do. Not. Understand.
Not trying to be facetious but aren’t you aware of the 2020 fraud? Our votes haven’t counted for longer than we ever imagined. These douchebag RINOs fraudulently won their seats.
I got the same flyer from Joe and agree that a whole lot of people upon here wanted Joe to switch parties. I would scream Nooooooooo! In my head. His Kavanagh vote is the only reason he was reelected.
Some of these same people argued with me that it was obvious people were going to jail after the 2020 election to which I said what if Trump lost? We are in deep NWO doodoo.
So, role call…. what have the other Senators done? Who has a non-corrupt Senator raise his or her hand.
Ever wonder which *specific individuals* write which *specific sentences* in each and every bill put up?
Shouldn’t the American people know exactly who is actually writing the verbiage in each and every sentence in every single bill, including any and all: ideas, input, extraneous input, all communications in reference to the bill, emails in reference to, notes, drafts, etc.?
Details!details! You must be a Conservative!
It AIN’T the Legislators, and it ain’t there staffs,..its the Lobbyists that write the legislation, and then bribe it to be introduced, to get out of Committee, and to get enough votes to pass.
McConnell, Schumer, Pelosi and McCarthy collect the $, and funnel it into re-election funds, which are then distributed to members for there campaigns. I believe no legal limits on those funds.
And those 4 gotta go. The first needs to be the card carrying commie.
The House is supposed to be doing ‘the people’s business. Ain’t nuthin’ for the people in any bills, in many decades.
Sure those four gotta go…..but who is going to make that happen?
A while back, Sundance did a very nice expose on how the bills are written, for the congress critters.
K Street writes them. Meaning lobbyists.
We need an FOIA, unredacted, on the visitors logs for each of the 435 SWAMPSTERS.
No Con-gressman nor Sin-ator has written any sentence in any bill in at least the last 70 years. They are ALL written by the corporations that kick back to them.
Yep, and Americans need to know the specific individuals writing every single word in these monstrosities.
And they all trust the content of the bills, only looking on the pages that verify their personal take.
I don’t wonder; it’s lawyers paid by the moneychangers.
A partnership for national disaster.
More IRS agents
Oh Lord
I wonder if that means the IRS will be requisitioning additional firearms and ammo as well.
For better tax enforcement!
The destruction goes on. They are ramming dollars into their bank accounts as fast as they can.
Every empire ends with the government looting the treasury on the way out the door. Are we learning Russian or Chinese today?
Sent to Manchin tonight: Really? Another 739 BILLION dollars? AGAIN???? What is the matter with you and those other idiot Democrats that you do not realize what a downhill spiral we are in in this country? And nothing for the border? Crime? Paying for Ukraine? Raise taxes? I cannot believe you would throw us under the bus as you are doing. Every single thing this administration has done is nothing but traitorous to the American people. SHAME ON YOU. I asked for a response however there is nothing you could say or do that would justify this horrendous action and capitulation to Shumer/Pelosi…despicable all of you!
I conclude many democrats are more insidious than idiots.
Lust for personal power and wealth at our expense motivates them.
Not a patriot among them whose interest is serving our republic and doing whats best for it.
Only whats best for serving themselves and their cronies.
In their minds, they probably have an escape plan to avoid what they do to us and have their seats on the lifeboats reserved while they sink the US.
“Pass legislation governing energy permits” ,..so they can prevent PDJT from opening the tap, when he returns to the Oval,…which they KNOW he is going to do,…or perhaps this is another “Insurance Policy” you know, in the “unlikely event”,..?
Attempting to cover all the bases, I suspect.
Not any more than Marie, when she said “Let them drive electric”,…see how closely they mirror, mimic even the same attitude?
The elites never believe the gravy train is going to end, and never see it coming.
“Oh, fireworks! How LOVELY!”
They will be shocked, offended, aghast, and then in shock as they are dragged from their homes and offices and strung up, should it ever happen.
That it COULD happen, is simply not in their wheelhouse. Remember, they are champions at “pretending not to know things” as well as “knowing so much that isn’t true”..
Ceausescu them all.
FTA: “Ceausescu had misjudged the mood of the crowd as he blamed “fascist agitators” for the Timisoara unrest; the Bucharest crowds responded by jeering and chanting “Timisoara! Timisoara!”.
A visibly shocked Ceausescu attempted to appease demonstrators with promises of higher wages but dissent only grew. The national address, which was broadcast on state television in an attempt to re-establish authority, was abruptly cut from the airwaves.
. . . .
“Blighted by a lack of basics, such as food, heating, and lighting, dissent was building up in the isolationist state as Ceausescu and Elena lived in luxurious, palatial homes.
“We knew that people living in other countries had more material wealth and were living better. It was clear to me that something would happen, but nobody was really talking about it.”
In the Securitate, Romania had one of the Eastern Bloc’s largest and most feared secret police forces, and talking freely under the Ceausescu regime was a dangerous endeavour.”
As many as one in four people were thought to be informers for Ceausescu’s secret police in the 1980s. The Securitate were responsible for the torture and death of thousands of dissenters.
“Fear of talking was there since the early ’80s,” the former student remembers.
On Christmas Day, the Ceausescus were executed by firing squad in a show-trial that accused them of crimes against humanity.
“I felt relief. It was a good thing to do to calm people down. Wiser guys than me were saying that blood had to be spilled to settle down events like this.”
Whole article linked:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50821546
There’s no doubt SD’s got the rhythm of the cynicism down.
“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.”
What you CAN do however is remain in your seat and re-inhale the Vapors of the Spell: that the Red wing is, in some authentic sense, superior to the Blue wing i.e. deny the anatomical (and unidirectional) reality of the Unibird itself. It’s physics.
What direction does a bird favor? The direction in which its two wings carry it.
To the extent they remain vested in the notion that the next election ‘might tip in favor of their preferred wing’ (whatever that means), Patriots are at least as self-deceiving as Lefties, if not more so.
Comfort and inertia favor endless media explication over the obvious: That this bird can’t, won’t and will never fly for US.
Fact
You will recognize them by their fruits.
Why yes, yes we do!
All rotten.
*spit*
As Stalin said “The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation”.
Unless the kulaks decide that they want to go full-on Antifa/BLM and just smash and grab what they need. Why not? No penalties. Why suffer? Because “laws”? ROFLMAO. Laws. That’s a cute, outdated notion.
A lawless government invites the citizens to become lawless.
Justice Brandeis in his dissent in Olmstead: “Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
So the green new deal has been renamed inflation reduction act and tacked onto a reconciliation package. A couple of RINO’s will support this to make it a bipartisan deal. We’re not fooled by this gamesmanship, nor I dare say deceived. It’s quite evident we the people have no representation in the halls of congress.
“Inflation reduction”
Has an Orwellian ring to it.
Texas…once famous for oil wells…
So why not? They get away with everything else. America is waking up but having trouble getting out of bed.
If this passes the odds of a civil war in US will increase dramatically. You cannot destroy the fossil fuel industry with out decimating the economy which in turn will destroy the dollar.
How can there be so many traitors in this country? Senate, Representatives, Republicans, Democrats, FBI, CIA, Generals, State Department, DOJ, Corporations-
Civil War or Revolutionary War?
Civil, the constitution and Washington’s farewell address are all we need to follow.
both.
Ditto that!
This will sink him in his Presidential run. President Trump will drown him with this. So he gives his state some favorable treatment and screws the rest of the Country.
1776 PART II
ATLAS IS SHRUGGING
Energy permitting is code for we are screwed
As we are intended to be.
Don’t say no… say HELL NO!
All this talk about Manchin and how he should switch parties is hooey. He is and always will be a liberal Democrat. It’s all choreographed to give some illusion of SOMEONE, ANYONE actually working for us. But it’s all a ruse.
Manchin gets an 18%, “F”, on his “Liberty Score.”
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/
Oh more IRS agents who can throw away millions of tax returns because they get overwhelmed? We never got our refund for 2019 because over 30 million tax returns were just thrown away!!!!!! I guess they had micro aggressions that day!
AS I’ve said, Joe Manchin is THEIR Mitt Romney.
The Uniparty is in charge.
The Uniparty must be removed.
The Duo was misquoted, what they said was, “The Inflation FOR SUCKERS Act of 2022!”
Current voter polls reveal that only 1% of all voters are concerned about Climate Change, and of this, only 3% of Dims are.
More Bigly Failure here from the Duo trying to stop the Mid Term tsunami.
Well, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Panama………America next? Poping off may be a good thing.
Every DNC politician on planet earth is pure scum. It sounds crazy these days but there used to be a few of them that I actually liked and cared what they had to say. Those days are long gone. People can blame Biden all they want but these are DNC policies that are destroying America.
I will say this again too. I don’t believe this can be fixed until we have a free and fair news media, or at least, one that’s not afraid to hold the DNC accountable the same way they hold the GOP accountable. I don’t see that happening anytime soon either. We will probably be the next Venezuela before that happens.
Remember the attacks on 9-11?
Bush and Congress scraped together money to clean up the mess,
pay out to the families who lost loved-ones,
and rebuild the World Trade Center.
How much did we send????
20 Billion
Now, think about the magnitude of $ 370 Billion.
Looks like Manchin is positioning for a 2024 run?
He can kiss that good bye. The traitor.
In 2019, while we still had Pres. Trump’s economy –and before Covid,
credit card spending for Black Friday was $ 7.4 Billion.
This includes all the online spending.
Now, think of the magnitude of $ 370 Billion.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/30/black-friday-shoppers-spend-record-7point4-billion.html
In February 2022, while the economy was still floating in stimmie cash,
what was the total spent for Valentine’s Day?
This includes cakes/candies/cards for little kids at school, spending that led up to the date, restaurant spending on the 14th, jewelry, etc.
23.4 Billion
https://wallethub.com/blog/valentines-day-facts/10258
How does $ 370 Billion sound?
Does it seem like a toddler is driving this bus down the freeway?
“Don’t ask what can I do for my country, make a deal on what my country will do for me!”
Whether it wants to or not.
The rich get richer. Schumer looks like a hunch-back SOB. I usually don’t hate people, but I make exceptions for Schumer & Pelosi, I am adding Manchin to the list. Our illustrious GOP leadership is dumber than they look.
Vote buying is alive and well.. Remember Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu and obama care?
The pic shows Manchin on the phone with schumer watching. Probably telling his wife to see if his payoff hit the bank yet…
Manchin was the Governor of WV from 2005 to 2010. His daughter was the CEO of Mylan Labs..located south of Pittsburgh. She was involved in a scandal over fake college transcripts from WVU and the EpiPen price gouging when the price of the life saving drug/delivery device went from 100$ to 600$ per pair.
Big business groups lash out at Manchin-Schumer deal
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3577600-big-business-groups-lash-out-at-manchin-schumer-deal/amp/
LOL! Spend $370B and call it the Inflation Reduction Act. Do they think we are all FN nuts out here? Good Grief!
Oh my gosh…Sundance is right again. What a mess. I have never put Joe Manchin on a pedestal. He has that aww shcuks I am from WV and we are good folks shtick that I have never bought into. I am hoping this fails some how some way, but I won’t hold my breath.
In their lust for power they’ve have ignored riots in other countries, which will pale to the one coming here. We have a winter every year, and even full sun can’t stave off the cold. All the solar panels Arizona can build won’t help, car batteries won’t keep us warm stalled in a blizzard. An army of engineer’s would take decades to build a grid for power that will never be there. Food producton will stall to old USSR quantities. The list goes on. They’re asking for a revolution and they might get one.
Here’s an idea that I have suggested here many, many, many times, and will continue.
Get rid of all single serve bottled water purchased by gubts, fed, state and local, any gubt funded institutions, orgs, etc. Cancel all future orders for bottled water.
Congress should immediately make it a law that it is illegal for anyone to purchase it with gubt funds, directly or indirectly. PERIOD.
If you must, put in water fountains, or bring your own water jug, and that includes all “guests”. You are not entitled to bottled water, PERIOD.
This will do more than the Build Back Broke Green New Deal any day of ther week and twice on Sundays, and SAVE us a TON Of $$$.
I am sick and tired of paying for all this bottled water, and seeing such waste. It should have been done long ago.
BTW, all that plastic comes from EWWWW oil.
So ACA treats West Virginians differently than everyone one else? There goes equal protection under the law.
If Republicans truly opposed this (hahahahahaha) they’d find a way to tie it up in court.
McConnel gets played again
Sad to see our country being stolen from the Americans who built and died for our home in the New World.
Man was never meant to govern himself.
People are barking up the wrong tree here. Manchin is a democrat doing democrat things which include creating a problem and then creating an even worse solution to said problem. People need to start holding his constituents accountable considering WV is a blood red state that continues to vote for this man. When are they going to put a republican up to challenge him?
Isn’t it obvious? They found Joe Manchin’s price and they are willing to pay it.
Blue and Red make Purple. What plainer evidence do you need for the Uniparty?