Manchin pumps brakes on Biden infrastructure plans

[Polybius]

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Source: The Hill

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is emerging as the chief obstacle to quick passage of President Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure package that Democrats want to move through Congress sooner rather than later.

Manchin is ramping up discussions with Republicans about what a scaled-down infrastructure package should look like, and some GOP senators are even optimistic that the moderate Democrat can be persuaded to block efforts to raise the corporate tax rate.

That means Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will likely have to wait for the negotiations to reach some kind of conclusion before moving ahead with the budget reconciliation process, as Manchin is expected to be the critical 50th Democratic vote needed to avoid a GOP filibuster.

“For the sake of our country, we have to show we can work in a bipartisan way,” he said Monday evening. “I don’t know what the rush is.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/550382-manchin-pumps-brakes-on-biden-infrastructure-plans

[Phoenix61]

1. No words. Well, none I'm willing to put in writing. nt

[TheBlackAdder]

12. He's taken over the Susan Collins position and he is flexing his power and seeking attention.

[Carlitos Brigante]

17. But she never shit on her own party the way he does. And in the

end she'd get nothing and still vote strictly down party lines. No matter how heinous or how "concerned" she may have said she was about RW legislation.

[Carlitos Brigante]

16. I did. Shit got deleted. But I'm gonna continue to do so. Lieberman

was a piece of shit. But even he didn't have this massive bloated ego. And I don't believe for a fraction of a second he's as dumb as he sounds. He knows exactly what he's doing. Plus it'd be in his interest to stay in the majority, but barely. The more Senate seats you add. The more irrelevant he becomes.

[qazplm135]

2. Manchin is going to Manchin

time for folks to accept that we are going to get about half of what we want, if we are lucky.

[CincyDem]

3. History will remember him as our generation's Neville Chamberlain (trying to appease). n/t

[BradAllison]

4. Pathetic.

[Penn Voter]

5. I just hope that the Democrats

can pick up Senate seats in 2022 so we can end the Joe Manchin shit show.

[-misanthroptimist]

7. +1

It's hard enough putting the country back together in the face the Cowardly Lyin' Party fighting tooth and nail. Throw in a guy, ostensibly on our side, who thinks that one can work with the Cowardly Lyin' Party and...as you say, shit show.

[Jon King]

15. Sadly it won't matter if Repugs get the House due to redistricting....

What a waste of an opportunity to help build the future of America.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. What a DICK.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. I am so sick of his SHIT

And, if that little outburst isn't allowed, so be it. I'm fucking tired of his
"bipartisan" bullshit.

[LawDem]

9. With Manchin don't look at what he says at the beginning. Look at what he does at the end.

I’m not saying he’ll support Biden’s infrastructure proposal, I’m just saying we don’t know that he won’t.

[yaesu]

10. He just wants to be king of the Sunday meet the press talk show circuit again. nt

[Blue Owl]

11. Manchin: bad for blood pressure

[LudwigPastorius]

13. What a self-aggrandizing shithead. n/t

[DENVERPOPS]

21. An egomaniacal self aggrandizing shit head.

It would be great if all 74 million Dem voters put forth a deluge of emails, phone calls, and letters and didn't stop until he quits this shit.

[Jon King]

14. Manchin will be irrelevant when Repugs take back the House.....

I guess he might as well play the big shot now because its very likely the Repugs take the House and then the Senate ends up with 52 or 53 Dems in 2022.

So he will be totally irrelevant soon enough and his only legacy will have been to block things that would have benefited West Virginia too.

[Orrex]

18. When Republicans hold the majority, they're in control

When Republicans hold the minority, they're in control.

Thanks to reliably self-serving assholes like Manchin.

[duforsure]

20. Typical Manchin,

Resist a bill which has nearly 70 % approval, and in a state where infrastructure is one of the worse , and jobs are badly needed , he ignores the people he is suppose to represent. Is Manchin being paid to do this to get donor support? The people of his state should wake up and install someone who cares about them, and will support a living minimum wage, which he doesn't. He's in it for the power and money for himself, not the people, and his excuses are getting old.

[OhioChick]

22. What a DINO...

He's a useless POS.

[Ace Rothstein]

23. Despite all the Republican rhetoric, this clown is still talking about bipartisanship.

[bluestarone]

24. Whatever happens to our country is

On his FUCKING shoulders!

[Harker]

25. He needs his brakes pumped. n/t

[Lonestarblue]

26. If Manchin doesn't know what the rush is, then he's got his head buried in the sand.

Given the addition of several new House positions in red states, Democrats stand a good chance of losing the majority, at which point none of the rest of Biden’s agenda will get passed and we will have nothing but Republican obstruction for two more years. Infrastructure has been ignored for decades, and it’s long past time to get things done. Those things will also benefit Manchin’s voters in West Virginia.

[Omaha Steve]

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