Manchin Says Virginia Results Validate His Concerns

[applegrove]

Manchin Says Virginia Results Validate His Concerns

November 3, 2021 at 12:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 91 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/11/03/manchin-says-virginia-results-validate-his-concerns/

"SNIP......

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said the “unbelievable” Republican victories in Virginia’s statewide races Tuesday validate his concerns about inflation and moving the $1.75 trillion reconciliation package too quickly through Congress, The Hill reports.

He added: “You can read so much into all of that last night. I think it should be a call to all of us have to be more attentive to the people back home.”

......SNIP"

[Demovictory9]

1. Eff him

[Danmark]

5. X2

[peggysue2]

2. Strange, no?

That's the message McConnell sent out as well.

Glad we're all on the same team.

[Irish_Dem]

3. So he is in essence confirming his speech on election eve was not coincidental in timing.

It was a ploy to get back up for his stance.

[applegrove]

4. People support the individual parts of BBB plan by big majorities

in some cases.

[In It to Win It]

6. Everything remaining exactly the way it has been since the last Virginia election

validates his concerns.

Congress doing nothing validates his concerns. Hate to see how we lose even more after Congress actually does something.

Well, if we're losing while Congress is doing nothing, and still lose if Congress takes action on a $1.75 trillion dollar bill... might as well go out in a blaze of glory and pass the damn thing.

[IA8IT]

7. Maybe if the senator hadn't parked a bus on top of the Democrats agenda.........

[Celerity]

27. he is the Jose Mourinho of Dem Senators, except a Manchin clean sheet means we lose

Maybe if the senator hadn't parked a bus

[IA8IT]

35. Yes Exactly

[Walleye]

8. Did you ever laugh out loud from frustration? I just did

[bluewater]

36. +1000

[Omnipresent]

9. If the results were good, I doubt he would have said anything different.

[orwell]

14. This!

He would have said the same thing if McAuliffe won.

Joey one-note.

Just show him the money...

[MoonRiver]

10. I think Manchin will single handedly bring Dems down.

[rurallib]

20. I was thinking just yesterday that it looks like his mission is to destroy

the Democratic Party. Should he do so there will probably be oodles of money for him.

[rurallib]

21. I was thinking just yesterday that it looks like his mission is to destroy

the Democratic Party. Should he do so there will probably be oodles of money for him.

[MoonRiver]

37. His behavior sure indicates that.

[Efilroft Sul]

42. Why stop with the party when you can bring down the whole effing Republic? Right, Joe?

[qazplm135]

11. of course he does

so predictable.

[totodeinhere]

12. No Joe. If you and Sinema had been on board with the president's Build Back Better agenda

this electoral disaster would not have happened. You have it backwards.

[Dawson Leery]

13. Keeping schools closed and protection mandates had more of an impact.

He knows this. He also knows the child tax credit and family leave are more popular than he ever was.

[padah513]

15. Right before an election he pulls a Comey

Don't want to hear anything he has to say

[renate]

30. "Pulls a Comey"

That’s it exactly!

[spicysista]

16. Hey, Joe....

Inside West Virginia is where you are needed, for now. When it comes to outside of West Virginia...

[dweller]

17. Just getting more attention

is how Joe f’n manchin validates his existence

Eff’m

✌🏻

[tirebiter]

18. He is fundamentally correct

Roads and bridges are monuments that last generations.

[BlueIdaho]

19. Unbelievable?

Fuck him. The voting pattern for the state of Virginia should have told us keeping the governorship would have been a real fluke. In election after election, Virginians have turfed out the new President’s party in favor of the opposition.

No - this is more self serving bullshit from ManChin. If he were a real Democrat he would realize that losing in Virginia makes the passage of the President’s agenda even more pressing. It’s now or never.

[WHITT]

22. The

"people back home" support what's in the BBB proposal. Why are Manchin and Sinema opposing what the "people back home" want?

[malletgirl02]

23. If I said what I was thinking

I would get banned, so I will say this, bless is heart.

[Celerity]

24. Obstructionist coal baron says wot...............

flashback for exposure

Dem senator defends Koch brothers

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/dem-senator-defends-the-koch-bros-105570

Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday strongly defended the Koch brothers from attacks by fellow Democrats, saying the wealthy and politically active businessmen are taxpaying Americans who are creating jobs.

“People want jobs. You don’t beat up people. I mean, I don’t agree with their politics or philosophically, but, you know, they’re Americans, they’re doing— paying their taxes,” Manchin said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”

“They’re not breaking the law. They’re providing jobs,” he added.

[leftstreet]

25. Two moderates blocking a moderate POTUS agenda

...and a moderate Democrat lost a race

What does that have to do with the BBB/BIF

[ColinC]

26. Hey buddy, focus on your own state

And the fact that you don't have any billionaires there to benefit from saving them from the billionaire tax.

[Turbineguy]

28. Sure.

[jcgoldie]

29. Fuck Joe Manchin

He created Virginia results with his own obstructionism.

[MiniMe]

31. Actually Joe, if you had let Congress move things along, last night probably wouldn't have happened

The question was what have you done for me? Since Congress wouldn't approve Bidens Build Back Better Plan, the answer was pretty much nothing. YOU and your cohort Synema held things up.

[LonePirate]

32. He has absolutely no idea why Virginia voted the way it did yesterday. None whatsoever.

[moondust]

33. Bullshit.

Manchin is trying to escape his own culpability for yesterday's losses.

[BradAllison]

34. Fuck it, let's just all be Republican, just nicer about it than TFG

There are posters here at DU who have been all for it.

[Baitball Blogger]

38. Disingenious prick.

[Fiendish Thingy]

39. Manchin loves babies and kittens, and is the best example of a compassionate Democrat we have

And he smells good too.

(After two hides in the past 24 hours for posts criticizing Manchin, this is all the Joe Manchin Appreciation Society will allow me to post. Imagine how many hides some of us would have if this were 1963, and we were bashing George Wallace for opposing Kennedy on segregation…)

[Midnight Writer]

40. Manchin is "attentive to the people back home" by yelling at them from his yacht.

[Hav]

41. To quote Sarkozy

"You missed a good opportunity to shut up."

[Chille]

43. He also said WV

Could produce enough energy to make us independent again. 🤦‍♀️ Go figure

[BlueLucy]

44. Manchin is 100% to blame for Virginia loss.

[Cha]

45. What about Murphy in NJ, Big giy?!

Does that support your ****** "convictions?

[myohmy2]

46. no joe...

...it's believable...

...and your intransigence went a long way in making it believable...

...and the day after...no regrets?...no remorse?

...so, you're going to keep this movie going?

...I think we all know how it ends...

...shameful...

[Shellback Squid]

47. WTF, he should have claimed victory for causing the losses