Senator Joe Manchin (C-WV) dealt with the devil late last month and backed the disingenuously named Inflation Reduction Act.
His back-stabbing switch came as a shock to Republicans and likely to members of his own party as well, namely his constituency in West Virginia.
Now, imagine how many of those constituents will be voting Republican whether or not Manchin decides to seek re-election.
This from westernjournal.com.
Up until his switch, Manchin had been the one vote standing between the communists’ passage of needless and expensive climate change legislation and fiscal sanity.
Then, one day in July, a beaming Manchin joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to announce his support for a $740 billion bill which, contrary to its title, will do nothing to reduce inflation.
However, the act will:
– Subsidize green energy programs,
– Raise taxes on the middle class, and
– Dramatically expand the size of the IRS.
To secure Manchin’s vote, the Obiden Regime promised to facilitate the approval of a gas pipeline in West Virginia.
This would otherwise require passage of legislation that would “overhaul the permitting process for energy infrastructure,” according to The American Prospect, a liberal website.
As reported, progressives in the House are not keen on supporting a measure:
[T]hat could undercut the IRA’s down payment on clean energy by accelerating approval for energy projects that could ramp up U.S. fossil fuel production and exports of natural gas.
The Washington Times reported House communists were also angry over being excluded from the negotiations with Manchin.
Thus, they do not plan to honor the agreement.
[S]teamrolled into a bunch of fossil fuel giveaways just because Manchin cut a deal in a closed room with Chuck Schumer.
In a statement to the Prospect, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a communist and a well-known paradigm for demonstrating zero integrity, wrote:
Handshake deals made by others in closed rooms do not dictate how I vote, and we sure as hell don’t owe Joe Manchin anything now.
He and his fossil fuel donors already got far too much in the IRA … and we will vote this dirty deal down, one way or another.
"We sure as hell don't owe Joe Manchin anything now," said @RepRashida. https://t.co/4m37CUqaiC
— Common Dreams (@commondreams) August 16, 2022
The text of the permitting bill has not been released yet to members of Congress, but it is expected to be “attached to a must-pass government funding bill,” the Prospect reported.
Opponents, like Tlaib, want it to be treated as a stand-alone bill that will be voted on separately, and will fail in the House if she and her radical wing get their way.
All of this must come as a rude awakening to Manchin who surrendered his reputation for honesty and fairness only to be sold out by members of his own party.
