Here Is the Real Reason Joe Manchin Is Such A Dick
On Thursday morning, with the fate of major legislation still in the balance, everyone in Washington, D.C. appears to be working furiously to please one person: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin.
Actually, that’s not quite true. Republicans aren’t working at all. They’re absolutely pig-in-sh*t happy with their current position of sitting back and laughing; content that the news will be ready to quote them on Friday about either how Democrats either failed to govern or how Democrats are spendthrifts. And they are absolutely certain that the news won’t bother to note Republicans’ role in shoving the nation to the brink of disaster.
It’s really only Democrats who are desperately trying to determine what will please Manchin. But they won’t find that answer in the “top line” items that Manchin and Schumer scribbled their names on. The reason for this is simple enough: Joe Manchin profits from coal mines. He started the mining company Enersystems in 1988, and that company is still operated by his son.
Let’s make this really simple:
- Sen. Joe Manchin makes about $500,000 each year directly from stock in his coal brokerage company.
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President Joe Biden is proposing a higher tax rate on those making over $400,000, and both the infrastructure bill and reconciliation bill are designed to turn the nation away from coal.
Does that make the problem clear enough?
How do the Democrats end up with such fools? Certainly, the Republicans have their share but at least they are loyal fools.
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Come on now. Dicks are useful instruments and Manchin does not even come close to being useful as a dem.
Conflict of interest is pandemic too. But it’s really such a small tax increase that’s proposed. People with 10 times the money are fine with an increase, but not this wannabe.