There is no CC on this video. However if you can please watch / listen to the video. Finally Manchin is called out. Bernie gets tired of the dancing around the bush and flat out tells what the problem is, says Manchin is getting bribed legally by the wealthy corporations, Manchin is not representing the people of the state, Bernie even offered to pay for a poll of the people in Manchin’s state. Bernie lays this right on Manchin.
See Bernie Sanders’ reaction to Joe Manchin’s bombshell
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IMO, Manchin is enjoying the publicity and praise (from some) that he’s receiving as a result of his very public denial and objections to the bill. He long ago put the positives of the bill aside and began focusing on his own personal image and ego. Each news article simply adds to his self-importance. (The simple fact that he allowed himself to be interviewed on Faux News confirms this.)
IOW, at this point, it has little to do with the contents of the bill as it does with Manchin himself. As to what his END GOAL is? Now that is the underlying question …
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Hello Nan. The bill had things that hit his wallet. Here is the comment I left on Mock Paper Scissors. Hugs
What Manchin really is saying is he did not get his own way, and only his way, so he will vote no out of spite. He got called out and called arrogant because 48 other Democratic party Senators were able to compromise, able to accept not getting their own way, able to see the party came first, able to understand the people voted Biden president and this was what he said he would do on the campaign trail. Nearly 8 million more people wanted these programs than did not. Manchin seemed to feel he was voted president. Manchin felt he was so important he had a right to make all the calls.
But what really burns my toast is listening to Chuck Todd and the other Sunday pundits claim how upstanding and honorable Manchin has been. How Manchin has said from the start how he would only do 1.5 trillion and how bad the Democrats were to all agree to more than that. Oh how they go on about how Manchin worried about the debt, inflation, he was worried about the hurt to the poor people. All Bullshit!
Manchin has changed his reasons as fast as what he wanted was agreed too. Fact was his personal income and the income of his family was threatened by this legislation and so he was bound it had to never be enacted. He and his wife combined get over 1.1 million a year from the coal power plant his sons run. His daughter was CEO of a Pharma company that gave her a 30 million exit package for price gouging the fuck out of the people who needed the medication the company sold to save their lives. She got the job based on connections and a set of education degrees she did not earn or qualify for but got because her dad was Governor and then Senator. Manchin and family must kill the climate provisions to keep their money flowing from coal. Manchin knows he really cannot win a statewide Senate race against a tRump cult candidate, and knows tRump will push hard against him, so he is banking money from donors as hard as he can. Also he is banking their good will for after he loses the next election or doesn’t run. The donors don’t want the social spending bill, they don’t want the climate provisions any more than the Manchin family do, so they have bribed Manchin and Sinema with an unbelievable amount of hidden money. Remember Manchin got recorded at a Chamber of Commerce asking the wealthy to help him kill the bills they did not want by paying off other senators with high paying jobs after they leave the Senate or off the books perks. Sorry I will get off my soap box, but it angers me the way the corporate press is covering this story. Scottie
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