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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC unearths clip of Joe Manchin calling for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending
Its hard to understand what Joe Manchin is doing these days, other than forcing Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell to fight over who gets to loofah his undercarriage as he dithers in the bath over infrastructure spending. Of course, the real question is whether either of those two can loofah more lovingly than the fossil fuel industry, because just eight months ago, Manchin didnt balk at $4 trillion in infrastructure spendingso it may just be that his recent concerns have more to do with what the money will be spent on than how much we spend.
To be fair, the budget reconciliation package the Democrats are hoping to pass over Manchins all-too-strident objections comes to $3.5 trillion. Along with the already passed (though still-unsigned) $1.2 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the total cost to the Treasury would be $4.7 trillion. But, hey, are we going to blow up Americas (and the worlds) hopes and dreams over $700 billion?
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan recently unearthed a clip in which Manchin endorsed, all on his lonesome, an appropriately robust infrastructure investmentup to $4 trillion. And strangely enough, at the time, he wasnt worried about inflation so much as the significant opportunity costs of not passing meaningful infrastructure legislation.
Watch:
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/9/2051316/-MSNBC-unearths-clip-of-Joe-Manchin-calling-for-up-to-4-trillion-in-infrastructure-spending
Champp
(2,114 posts)I guess Manchin's Inner Republican got the better of him this time around.
Dakota Flint
(219 posts)"That was then this is now"...Manchin is apparently a big Monkees fan...but he probably won't admit it.
yonder
(9,656 posts)Response to yonder (Reply #2)
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Trueblue1968
(17,193 posts)Big money interests got to him.
dalton99a
(81,391 posts)brush
(53,740 posts)Manchin's positions change according to who he's talking to. This video can be useful for Speaker Pelosi and Schumer when dealing with Manchin.
SergeStorms
(19,182 posts)TFG was still president (until 12:00 pm on the 20th) but Manchin knew the Orange Asshole was on the way out.
msongs
(67,348 posts)doc03
(35,295 posts)he will be a hero in WV.
Elessar Zappa
(13,906 posts)is polling well everywhere.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Manchin will be shooting himself in the foot.
Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)As long as everyone else is miserable and dying, they're fine with their own suffering, etc. etc. etc.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Follow the money. With Joe, its all about the money.
joetheman
(1,450 posts)we need to turn out attention to manufacturing again, climate change, and cyber crimes? Spread over 10 years it's not as much as Trump's tax cut in one year.
We have to do what is necessary for TODAY...tomorrow will take care of itself AND it isn't promised to anyone.
hadEnuf
(2,174 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)Poiuyt
(18,113 posts)conservative constituents?
Silent3
(15,147 posts)Now that it could happen, especially in a way that doesn't favor fossil fuels, and does favor making big corporations and the rich pay for it... well, then, hold your horses!
SergeStorms
(19,182 posts)So he decided to be anti-Biden sometime after Biden was sworn in? That doesn't make Manchin look too much like a Democrat, does it? That's right about the same time republicans decided all new spending was bad too.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,494 posts)cstanleytech
(26,224 posts)than anything else.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,371 posts)I cannot wait to hear ManChin explain this one.