Sunday Morning Quote – Joe tells It All
Joe Manchin came to the table in agreement with the new IRA provisions. This left Senator Sinema as the only one blocking the Inflation Reduction Act. To reach an agreement, Democrats were forced to narrow a key provision of the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act because of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
“We had a senator from Arizona who basically didn’t let us go as far as we needed to go with our negotiations and made us wait two years. Those type of things — I don’t question anybody, everyone’s responding to their own constituent base. But we did get something. And it’s the first time we made a positive move in that.”
Joe Manchin said in a video of the event that was viewed by NBC News.
“How Democrats’ surprise climate and health care bill came together after months of setbacks and reversals,” (nbcnews.com), Scott Wong, Ali Vitali, Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V and Mike Memoli
Feel free to form your own conclusions . . .
President Joe and Senator Joe are butt-buddies back a long ways. I can’t help but wonder if they played some eleven-dimension chess on the repubes, that Senator Joe’s (at least, maybe the bimbo too) apparent recalcitrance and last-minute change of heart were all a part of the plan. The con, the sting. That they knew how the repubes would behave and planned accordingly, and in doing so pulled a massive one over on the obstructionists.
One of America’s great national pastimes: pulling one over …
Nonsense.
Do you have a better explanation, or are you just shooting your mouth off because you can?
Yeah, fairly simple. Biden, Schumer and Pelosi tried to bluff Manchin into believing they would only do the BBB and the BIB at the same time. Played it to the last card. Hard to bluff when someone else is holding all the cards. People that ignore simple math and truths and make up imbecilic statements like some long time relationship that never existed in any reality should try to get a life an avoid political discussion or change their information sources and start over.
Way back, huh? Manchin first came to DC in November, 2010. Probably never met Biden until Biden swore him into the Senate.
Not to discount Manchin’s effects on legislation, but Sinema is even worse. Makes me beyond upset I worked on her campaign in 2018. Course, last year at this time my 6 fellow volunteers still living in AZ devoted themselves to working for whoever runs in the primary against her in 2024. Though at this point I highly doubt she will even run, as she knows she would get annihilated.
Only two words help my grief from helping to put her in the Senate: Martha McSally.
As Joe Manchin put it, if you want progressive legislation, you have to elect more progressives.
Jack:
He is playing games with us. He has really aggravated his supporters by doing what he did.
His supporters are getting exactly what they have gotten from Manchin his entire life. He has never changed. He is a W VA Democrat in the same vein as Robert Byrd. And not the “nice” Robert Byrd in the last decade or so of his 51 years in the Senate.
I have read that Joe Manchin got the promise of a gas pipeline completion for his IRA vote, and Kyrsten Sinema arranged for the removal of tax increases (specifically the carried-interest loophole for Wall Street stays in place) except for a small excise on stock buy-backs for hers.
These are small prices to pay for a big win?
Vaguely related?
Three Reasons Why Manchin Did A U-Turn On Climate Policy
Forbes – August 8
However, it appears that Manchin & Sinema are not in a good place with the dark forces of the Koch empire right now.
Koch network pressures Sens. Manchin, Sinema to oppose $739 billion tax-and-spending bill
CNBC – August 1
… Americans for Prosperity, which is part of the larger Koch network, launched two ads on Saturday on its Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages. The ads specifically call out the two senators, encouraging them to oppose the legislation. “Senator Manchin can stop it. Come on, Joe … Say NO for West Virginia,” the Manchin-focused ad says. The Sinema ad has an almost identical look, stating “Senator Sinema can stop it. Come on, Kyrsten … Say NO for Arizona.” …
Manchin Side-Deal Text Lacks Mention of Mountain Valley Pipeline
Bloomberg – Aug 3
A side deal between Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer focused on permitting overhaul doesn’t specifically cite the Mountain Valley Pipeline, according to draft legislative language obtained by Bloomberg.
The text appears to conflict with a one-page summary of the deal released this week, which pointed to federal approval of the long-delayed, 303-mile natural gas pipeline. Democratic leaders struck the deal in exchange for Manchin’s(D-W.Va.) crucial vote on the inflation reduction package of $370 billion in energy and climate spending. …
(Barely related at all, but needs to be posted somewhere.)
An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives
NY Times – August 22
A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo.
NY Times – August 22
An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives
A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor — an extraordinary sum that could give Republicans and their causes a huge financial boost ahead of the midterms, and for years to come.
The source of the money was Barre Seid, an electronics manufacturing mogul, and the donation is among the largest — if not the largest — single contributions ever made to a politically focused nonprofit. The beneficiary is a new political group controlled by Leonard A. Leo, an activist who has used his connections to Republican donors and politicians to help engineer the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court and to finance battles over abortion rights, voting rules and climate change policy. …
The cash infusion was arranged through an unusual series of transactions that appear to have avoided tax liabilities. It originated with Mr. Seid, a longtime conservative donor who made a fortune as the chairman and chief executive of an electrical device manufacturing company in Chicago now known as Tripp Lite.
Rather than merely giving cash, Mr. Seid donated 100 percent of the shares of Tripp Lite to Mr. Leo’s nonprofit group before the company was sold to an Irish conglomerate for $1.65 billion, according to tax records provided to The New York Times, corporate filings and a person with knowledge of the matter.
The nonprofit, called the Marble Freedom Trust, then received all of the proceeds from the sale, in a transaction that appears to have been structured to allow the nonprofit group and Mr. Seid to avoid paying taxes on the proceeds. …
Snared it . . . later in the week.