Joe Manchin has no one to blame but himself for being so gullible that he actually believed his fellow Democrats would keep their word, but we knew better all along. He agreed to vote for Biden’s $1.9 trillion boondoggle the misnomer-ed Deficit Reduction Act in exchange for them passing his bill to speed up approval for increasing energy.
Now, they not only killed his bill, which makes him very unpopular in his state, but now Joe Biden has declared that he intends to kill coal production in this country.
However, the White House is now walking that back. Do you believe them? If you do, you will be sorely disappointed.
But, they are not walking it back now for West Virginia. He does plan to shut down everything coal, but his handlers wanted to wait until after the midterms to announce it because it will cost them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Win, lose, or draw, they will proceed to lock down the coal industry just as soon as the election is over.
Manchin said:
“President Biden’s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, but they also 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 believe he does not understand the need to have an all-in energy policy that would keep our nation totally energy independent and secure.”
My statement on comments President Biden made about shutting down coal plants: pic.twitter.com/LEeqrGdwqm
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) November 5, 2022
Biden said:
“I was in Massachusetts about a month ago on the site of the largest old coal plant in America. Guess what? It cost them too much money. No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of the existence of the plant,” Biden said. “So it’s going to become a wind generation.”
“And all they’re doing is, it’s going to save them a hell of a lot of money and using the same transmission line that they transmitted the coal-fired electric on, we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar power.”
That’s funny. In Germany, they are dismantling a wind farm to make room for expanding a coal mine. They are doing it there because of the extreme shortage of energy and the coal mine will supply much more than the wind farm. In the United States, Joe Biden is dismantling the country to make room for communism.
Manchin’s comments will alienate him even more from his party, but they don’t care. They got a major concession from him and it didn’t cost them a thing. His best chance to get reelected again in 2024 would be to switch parties, but he hates Mitch McConnell (So do I) and that is why he hasn’t made the move before, but if McConnell goes, Manchin just might make the jump.
Manchin said:
“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 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 learns [the] lesson that his words matter and have consequences.”
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C’mon man! Manchin is a good Democrat and will follow his master’s orders, as usual.
I say we just ignore this so-called president, his feckless cadre, and the Demo-Communist party, and We The People do what’s right for this Country because it’s pretty damned obvious to me that this Government and Regime doesn’t give a good goddamn about the people in this Country who erroneously out them in office.
Hey Manchin,
How does it feel to be bent over with both of JoeBama’s hands on your shoulders?
Joe Manchin is either too stupid or too out of touch with his own Party to see that his Democrats would follow through on their avowed anti-coal program. Or else Manchin knowingly betrayed West Virginia for the benefit of his Democrat Party and the DC establishment. Either way, Joe Manchin has betrayed West Virginia and damaged many of its residents. While China is building over 40 new coal-fired power plants (33 Megawatts), The Democrat Party and Joe Manchin is destroying the coal industry in the USA. China is growing stronger while the USA is making itself weaker.
Manchin played the fool. He knew the Democrats were lying to him and he loved wanted their approval more than his country or even his state.
Manchin will be up for re-election in 2024. Anyone can see (including his fellow Democrats) that he will face a VERY tough campaign and face the very real possibility he will lose.
The comment by Biden (no, he is NOT my president) that the Democrats will close all carbon stung Manchin in the very heart of his constituency. It is the worst blow possible by fellow Democrats against him.
I’m sure he’s furious. Mr. Manchin, it’s time to change parties. You got stabbed in the heart one more time in the worst possible way.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
I think Joe Manchin would make a great Republican. He has values in thinking of the working class people. I agree with his feeling about Mitch McConnell. He (McConnell) has been talking out of both sides of his mouth. His radical thinking has helped Biden with his way of voting on bills that hurt our country and economy. He needs to go!! His leadership has been like that of a kid who doesn’t like the other boys. He has made clear he don’t like Trump and that’s not the way to get things done politically. We need leadership not bullshit. I’m a staunch Republican but I do have good feeling about a minimal amount of democrats and Joe Manchin is a smart person and one of my favorites from the Democratic party.
Manchin is the Romney of the Democrats. He plays along but at the end of the day he is nothing but a total self-profiting idiot. I hope WV will finally get a clue and vote this bullshit artist out the next time he is up for reelection. Same goes for KY and the total traitor McConnell!
Now, we the American People have to pay the price of your stupidity!
To Joe Manchin: Surely you know that Joe Biden has lied, all his life. Secondly, under Biden Inc, he lies like the puppet he is. Tell me how you, a supposed man of integrity, can buy in to what you must know to be false. Oh, but I remember: You’re a democrat. That says it all.
Hidin Biden needs to pay Everyone’s Gas , Food , Energy and Heating Bill’s for One Complete Year out of his POCKETS. And when the Republican Party takes Back the HOUSE , SENATE and the WHITE HOUSE. In 2022 and 2024 the Republican’s Start the Process of IMPEACHING and IMPRISONED the RINO’S and PARASITES in the Democratic Socialist/Communist Party in Congress and Hidin Biden’s FAKE and FRAUDULENT Administration.