Yesterday, Joe Biden declared that all coal-fired electricity plants in the U.S would be shut down, saying, “we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.”
Today, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, the senator who gave Joe Biden the vote he needed for the ‘inflation reduction act’ also known as the climate change investment act that will eliminate all oil, coal and natural gas development, pretends to act surprised that Joe Biden will destroy the West Virginia coal mining industry.
Joe Manchin – “Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on comments President Biden made about shutting down coal plants.
“President Biden’s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs. Comments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden and instead believes he does not understand the need to have an all in energy policy that would keep our nation totally energy independent and secure. It seems his positions change depending on the audience and the politics of the day. Politicizing our nation’s energy policies would only bring higher prices and more pain for the American people.
“Let me be clear, this is something the President has never said to me. Being cavalier about the loss of coal jobs for men and women in West Virginia and across the country who literally put their lives on the line to help build and power this country is offensive and disgusting. The President owes these incredible workers an immediate and public apology and it is time he learn a lesson that his words matter and have consequences.” (read more)
And yet LARGE numbers of West Virginians will vote Democrat on Tuesday including many individuals who work in the coal industry.
Well democrats are pretty stupid, at least their voters are!
This is exactly what we are up against.
No. West Virginia is a Red State. It’s been that way since 2008. Manchineel is toast if he decides to run for re-election.
He’s up in 2024. I’ll bet they do the same thing they do with Graham in SC… bank on voters having short memories.
Before 2024 rolls around, the script will allow Manchin to be a hero on some issue at some point. After the next six years are secured, he goes back to doing what he does best.
What a weasel….Typical politician.
Dude, you’re a a little confused.
I understood exactly what he is saying. You are the one confused.
Not at all. The confusion or inability to grasp the reality of the situation lies in those who think like and comment as you did.
You must be a Munchkin acolyte.
No tristran, your response is typical demoncrat.
Accuse others of EXACTLY what you are.
Snootybaronet nailed it. Spot on.
Joe Manchan is a tool… a very small, impotent tool.
Manchin is ridiculous and West Virginia should have handed him his hat a long tome ago.
Manchin has lied his last lie as senator. Please WV fire the oily bastard first chance you have. He sold out every American. Never trust Manchin ever…ever.
what a stupid ass
Manchin is a pure pos slime bucket.
Anne frank was a hoax
Manchin = Dirty lowdown lying scumbag. I could say more, but what is the use?
Coal built a lot of roads, churches, and schools in my area .. once. But no more.
I’m old enough to remember when politicians pretended our right-to-work low sulfur coal was “dirty”, but that good West Virginia union coal somehow wasn’t.. They voted to keep feeding the crocodile. Now they may get a taste of their own medicine.
Fortunately ? for America.. Wyoming was discovered to hold more coal than anyone dreamed. If we lose that.. look out.
Isn’t Wyoming Liz Cheney’s home/state she represented in Congress? I realize that she also is a DC Swamp Dweller with a lawyer husband so when she loses her seat in Congress next year, she doesn’t have to worry about Wyoming any more.
Joe has fooled a lot of people over the years.
When elections can be stolen in plain sight, why even try to hide who & what you really are.
Disgraceful.
What did Manchin think Biden was gonna do? Face it, Manchin. You got hosed.
That’s what he gets for making deals with Democrats.
Biden got the gold mine, Manchin got the shaft.
Manchin did not get hosed; Manchin is doing the hosing.
Crocodile tears from a political predator.
You were used, Mr, Brilliant.
Tall tree, short rope. Better yet, let the rope be long enough for him to stand on his tip toes. He will get tired eventually and take up the rest of the slack.
Don Corleone – ..Children can afford to be careless, men cannot.
I despair when I think of the West Virginians who voted for a Democrat Senator once again, knowing his Party fully intended to destroy their coal industry.
I despair when I think of all the oil industry workers, across America, who voted Democrat, knowing that Party intended to destroy their livelihood.
It’s not that these people didn’t know, it’s just that they thought that being American gave them such a huge margin of error they could afford to be careless.
To be born American, to live as an American since World War II is to win life’s lottery; this is why the population of Latin America is methodically pushing north.
The Rush Limbaugh Show once had a young man call in and confidently declare that America is so rich it can afford to be stupid. Mark Steyn was the guest host that day, and he remarked on the foolishness of that caller many times afterward.
The fool’s paradise is dead and gone. All the children in adult bodies will need to grow up fast.
It’s time for extreme federalism… You’ve made your rule now let’s see you enforce it.
They can only do what we allow them to.
I don’t know where Joe M’s head was, but I heard FJB say he would close down coal every time his mouth moved.
Both of them are Mother Fornicating, Felating Liars that would make a smelly addition to the dung heap of history.
FJM
Here is the tried and true Joe Manchin Way:
Of course, West Virginians like Manchin because he acts “more conservative” than RINO loser Shelley Moore Capito who looks like John F’ing Kerry in drag and of course, like Coke Whore Murkowski of Alaska, is the daughter of a big state politician (in Capito’s case, her late father, the Governor Arch Moore). Remember, Capito did not want to have a the GOP led Senate push through a SCOTUS candidate “too close to the election”.
I didn’t realize until this morning that Manchin is the Chair of the Senate Energy Committee, effective Feb 3, 2021. and that he replaced incumbent chair LISA MURKOWSKI. .. who is still on the committee.
Undoubtedly one of the eight Republicons (out of ten) that voted to ban Russian oil the day after Herr Trudeau did so in the former free nation of Canada.
I wonder what kinds of things this useless committee talks about? How to destroy American energy without looking like assholes must be the underlying agenda every week.
Manchin is a crook! Granted he’s a more genteel crook than your normal democrat type, but he proved once and for all that he is cut from the same cloth. So now he cries foul, well ignore him! He set us up and then knocked us down when he allowed Biden’s “break the back of the country” spending plan to go through. He should be ignored and never trusted again. West Virginia get rid of him!
What happened to the 30-day deadline for what Manchin wanted in exchange for his Inflating Inflation Act vote?
IMHO, Joe has designs on the White House and knows there is no path for him in today’s Dem Party.
This could get interesting
Rot
In
Hell
Traitor.
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Was the payoff worth stabbing your constituents in the back?
Manchin, a long time politician, made a deal with Biden, Pelosi and Schumer to get their agenda passed.
You cannot say he didn’t understand who he made this deal with.
WTF, Joe. You signed onto the program and now pretend you’re shocked when the follow-through is exactly as advertised. You know Biden’s a pathological liar and you knew exactly what was in the legislation you signed. You betrayed WV coal miners, not Biden.
Can he be re called? I guess he didn’t read the fine print.
this is all scripted nonsense. manchin coordinates his statements, posturing, and votes with the democrat machine and is allowed to “play” the W Va voters time after time while supporting the dem/socialist agenda 100%.
that’s the easy part — the amazing part is how many “conservatives” and “smart talking heads” are continually taken in by his and the uniparty’s BS.
Can the stupid West Virginia voters get rid of Manchin??? I’m so sick of being held hostage by this guy. They could elect a conservative and be done with the nonsense.
If we do win the Senate majority then at least Manchin will be a nobody again, as will Sinema. But enough is enough, voters. Gotta start voting strategically.
If Manchin, or any other politician, cared about people, he’d be lobbying his party to open the Keystone Pipeline.
It is sad the West Virginians can not see the lying soul of this man.