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Manchin blows off Democrats, yet again
Casper
2021-11-01 20:15:26
He wants more time time.
The Democratic senator, a crucial swing vote, demanded more time to evaluate the economic and fiscal ramifications of the $1.85 trillion plan, frustrating plans for a House vote this week.
During an appearance at the Capitol, Mr. Manchin, a crucial Democratic swing vote, condemned liberals in the House who have refused to vote for a separate $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan without a final deal on the domestic policy plan, saying their tactics would not pressure him into swallowing his grave reservations about the safety net measure.
In essence, he wants more time for his Corporate Lobby paymasters to peruse the bill, pick it apart and tell him what he can say to kill it. The Progressives were always right in reading his number. He always wanted them to pass the Infrastructure bill with never any intention of voting for a Build Back Better social bill that would have had any meaningful help to the poor and minorities, the backbone of the Democratic party. He's always willing to vote for tax cuts for rich folks like himself while telling the poor to pull themselves up by the bootstraps.
“While I have worked hard to find a path to compromise, it is obvious compromise is not good enough for some in Congress,” Mr. Manchin said, reading from prepared remarks. “It’s all or nothing, and their position doesn’t seem to change unless we agree to everything. Enough is enough.”
The gall of such a statement. He and Sen. Sinema are the ones holding Biden's Build Back Better proposals hostage while depleting voters' support for Biden's presidency by the inability of Democrats to reach a compromise. He, like the Republicans, wants to "own the Liberals (Progressives)". He's the skunk at the party
XDFIX
2021-11-01 20:51:03
In reply to Casper
He might as well cross the floor and take Sinema with him!
hotarobin
2021-11-01 21:43:51
In reply to XDFIX
he won't..he much more dangerous in this position..
VIX
2021-11-01 21:50:10
Oh those #murcan problems.
So quaint.
Dukes
2021-11-01 23:11:56
In reply to VIX
Is a good ting Trinbago is paradise!!!
VIX
2021-11-02 00:14:39
In reply to Dukes
tell me about it.
Imagine I can send my kid to school without worrying about some rabid redneck shooting up his school!!
I can take a jog in my neighbourhood without my blackness attracting bullets!
Imagine if you can, free and fair elections, without banana republic shenanigans a la great murca 
#murca #shitehole
Brerzerk
2021-11-02 00:37:17
In reply to VIX
Isn't that the problem that
a. It doesn't have to take a redneck for your kid to be possibly harmed in your own land
b. The danger to you just for being can be as great as that for us being black? In some parts being black isn't as dangerous as in Georgia.
Re Manchin-A former GOP Gov who aimed to get into the then Dem majority side of the senate by firing an AK47 in his campaign and whose daughter was handed an MBA and a $35M/YR CEO job refuses to assist the poor including war vets with dental, vision and hearing medical care because he doesn't want them to be 'Entitled.' Long sentence I know.
Casper
2021-11-02 04:54:17
In reply to Brerzerk
In 2007, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Bresch had claimed to have an MBA degree from West Virginia University, but the university disputed that.[11] The university subsequently awarded her an EMBA despite her having completed only 26 of the required 48 credits. Her father was governor of the state of West Virginia at the time.[12]
In the ensuing controversy, the university announced in April 2008 that it would rescind Bresch's degree. Michael Garrison, WVU president at the time, was reported to be "a family friend and former business associate of Bresch" and a former consultant and lobbyist for Mylan.[11][13] After a faculty vote of no confidence, Garrison and several university officials subsequently resigned
White Privilege STAMPED all over that.
Casper
2021-11-02 05:02:50
Meet Joe Manchin’s Appalling Daughter.
As if his own record weren’t bad enough, former coal baron and current West Virginia senator Joe Manchin’s daughter Heather Bresch — who doubles as a major donor to Joe — is a price-gouging drug profiteer who has played a central role in her father’s destructive political career
Last month, the Intercept’s Ryan Grim reported that Bresch worked with the CEO of Pfizer to keep the prices of the EpiPen artificially high. The EpiPen, as many readers with severe allergies know, is a lifesaving device patients carry with them in case of a serious allergic reaction that injects epinephrine into the body. As Grim reported, the emails about the 2011 deal between the CEOs were released as part of a lawsuit. Pfizer agreed to divest from its EpiPen competitor, giving Mylan a monopoly, allowing the company to continue raising prices without any competitive curb. (The deal — and the resulting price increase — was profitable to both companies, as Pfizer acquired King Pharmaceuticals, the company that made the epinephrine, while Mylan continued to make and distribute the device itself.)
In 2007, when Mylan first got the rights to the EpiPen, a two pack cost less than $100; after Bresch cut the aforementioned deal with Pfizer, the price increased to more than $600, with catastrophic results, especially for those who had to pay full price due to lack of adequate insurance coverage. As CNBC reported in 2016, the EpiPen only costs a couple dollars to make — including the drug. Oh, and as a side note, after the price increase, Manchin’s wife, Gayle Conelly Manchin, lobbied for federal legislation requiring schools to have EpiPens onsite.
The Manchins are truly the worst family in America.
Pfizer has settled a lawsuit on price-fixing in the case, and a similar legal action against Mylan is ongoing. Bresch stepped down from Mylan last year amid criticism over the unconscionable price increases. (Also, in 2017, Mylan was fined $465 million for ripping off Medicaid. You go, girl!) Bresch’s exit package was an eye-popping $37.6 million.
We all have disreputable relatives, but Manchin is implicated in his daughter’s career — she got her first job at Mylan after her dad put in a good word for her. What’s more, Bresch is far more involved than most daughters in her father’s career. As OpenSecrets reported last month after Grim’s story broke, Bresch’s company — PAC and employees — was one of Joe Manchin’s largest campaign contributors before it was purchased by Viatris in 2020. The largest donor to the Mylan PAC during the 2010 and 2012 cycles was Heather Bresch. In 2016 and 2018, Bresch and her husband, Jeff, a former partner at the law firm Jones Day, donated the maximum amount as individuals to Manchin’s campaign
Last Tuesday, protesters with the Sunrise Movement, Ohio Valley Environmental Resistance, and Pittsburgh Democratic Socialists of America picketed Bresch’s $10 million home in Pittsburgh. Protesters asked Bresch to lobby her father to stop cutting the full $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, with no cuts to its investments in human survival and a livable planet. The protesters delivered a job offer letter to her, pointing out that 68 percent of West Virginia voters want the full legislation to pass, including the climate provisions, but Manchin “does not listen to his constituents and is trying to cut the bill into nothing. So, we need someone he will listen to . . . we believe that is you.”
The wrongdoing of his daughter should not overshadow the full horror Manchin’s awfulness as an individual. He was a coal baron before he was a senator, and he collects half a million dollars a year in dividends from his coal company. No wonder he opposes all the most important climate provisions in the proposed budget. His own conflicts of interest would disqualify him from office, if we had a sensible constitution aimed at preventing the capture and control of government by capitalists. Since we don’t, his constituents should have the good sense to vote him out. They’ve got plenty of good reasons to do so, but his Big Pharma daughter surely offers one more.
Brerzerk
2021-11-02 15:13:18
In reply to Casper
Rich White Privilege- He disdains the poor whites apparently but instead of forming a coalition with all peoples such as 'The Poor People's campaign
they fall for the divide and rule 'Othering'
dayne
2021-11-02 15:37:59
Manchin only represents the Republicans and the Manchin's family interests in West Virginia. Most of the Democrat's plans will greatly help most of the people in West Virginia who are mostly poor, but Manchin is playing that he is concern about inflation that the plans could bring to the Nation, the same Manchin that voted for the Trump' tax cuts, that have run up the National debt.
embsallie
2021-11-02 15:39:58
In reply to XDFIX
He might as well cross the floor and take Sinema with him!
Why cross the floor? He is already there. He just needs to remove the coat he has on to reveal he is wearing Republican attire.
Add a MAGA hat to that and he will be complete.
Sinema herself is another issue.
I have never seen such callous stupidity in a Party that is trying to fend for those who need the help the most, when their numbers are nowhere close to what Obama had in his first term. They are very aware that all the votes are important. This is either a Power play or something more nefarious.
In my humble opinion, I think Sinema and Manchin are determined to derail Biden so that he does not succeed.
What other explanation is there?
Notice that the Republicans are rather very quiet about all that.
Why bother rock the boat when someone else can do it for you?
dayne
2021-11-02 15:59:50
In reply to embsallie
Agree, the two Manchin and Sinema, after the Democrats lose their power in the mid-terms, would then play they are for the Democratic Bills, because they know that the Bills have no chance of passing.
