After helping to craft the Inflation Reduction Act and providing the key vote for its passage, Joe Manchin took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal today to bemoan the Biden administration's implementation of it. While many on the right took this as a chance to slight Biden, the real story here lies with Manchin and The Wall Street Journal.
Since his first Senate term in the early 2000s, Joe Manchin consistently runs as a Democrat for the first four years followed by running as a Republican for the final two. Manchin has made a living conning the constituents of West Virginia with performative stunts like this in hopes of them forgetting about the progressive votes he cast before. Manchin is a progressive at heart but without fail, the nation’s most trusted editorial board has been happy to oblige the performance.
I gotta hand it to Joe Manchin. He knows how to play the system.
I've people who are from West Virginia. I've asked them why they consistently re-elect this guy every cycle.
There is no real answer..... other than two years before an election, he starts acting like a conservative which makes people forget all the left-wing stuff he did for the previous four years.
It's just lunacy.
This brings me to my point.
I hear many say “this country was founded on compromise”
While that’s true. These days are different.
We have a domestic terrorism group within our country and it is called the Democratic Party. You do not negotiate with terrorists.
You can believe that there are middle of the aisle democrats but that is just not true. You can believe that there are conservative democrats but that’s also not true.
In the end it has been proven that these people vote dem 100% of the time and never cross the aisle until it’s convenient.
They never do so under their own conviction, ever.
When your dealing with an enemy of this scale that can literally put your life at risk, your children’s lives at risk, and they are out there arming themselves getting ready for war. You don’t put your hand out offering a compromise because it’s likely to get cut off.
We don’t need middle of the road weak in the knees RHinos. We need people that are going to say NO! That are going to when a liberal legislative piece comes walking by to say “No I’m not voting for that and your a devil for even proposing it”
Trump has a problem in his delivery of his message but his message and intent is true.
When you you have an army at your doorstep the world doesn’t need a Mitch Mconnel. It needs a George S Patton type who’s going to fire back (metaphorically speaking) and ask questions later.
It is now necessary and required to put a wall between us and the left and no we are not accepting applications for residency on the top of it. Pick a side.
Stand firm and vote for people that say what they mean. There is no other way.