Chuck Schumer Pulls a Rabbit Out of Joe Manchin's Hat

[mcar]

Chuck Schumer Pulls a Rabbit Out of Joe Manchin's Hat
So what's inside this rabbit?

By Charles P. Pierce

OK, now let’s settle back and watch them all make the sausage. Reportedly, Joe Manchin, emperor of West Virginia, has concluded a treaty with the neighboring United States of America after a yearlong series of negotiations. Huzzah!...

By all accounts, this bill is a progressive Democrat’s dream shot. It’s the most money ever dedicated at one time to fighting the climate crisis. Democrats have fought for decades to give Medicare the ability to negotiate drug prices, which this bill makes possible. The bill modifies the egregious carried-interest tax loophole, the longtime bête noire of all financial reformers, and it drops a new minimum tax on corporations.

If this isn’t Christmas in July, it is at the very least New Year’s Eve and the big electric ball has just started to drop.

Against all possible odds, the Democrats also put together a shrewd and cohesive strategy for passing this bill through the Senate. First of all, the negotiations somehow managed to stay secret, even from other Democrats in the Senate. It is a reconciliation package, which immunizes it against the filibuster; and it is being sold, under the name of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, as an anti-inflation measure, which it is. Apparently, the administration has decided that there’s no political downside any more of pushing something called the IRA through Congress.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a40743705/chuck-schumer-joe-manchin-climate-deal/

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. I'm beginning to think that Joe Manchin is a genius, along with Sen. Schumer,

they played the Turtle and the rest of the repukes like a fine-tuned fiddle and now their crying that the Dems did to them what they've been doing to Dems for decades'

Hats off to Sens. Schumer and Manchin.

[agingdem]

6. the latest polling

suggests Dems keep the both Houses with a possible plus two in the Senate..if that happens Manchin (and Sinema) become more or less irrelevant ... no more playing Lucy to Biden's Charlie Brown...add to that, there have been a number of damning Joe Manchin exposes of late...and then there's the will he/won't he turn to the dark side..Manchin and Mitch sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G (politically speaking)..not a good look for a guy who may be eyeing the White House...

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. From your keyboard to god's ear,

make it so.

[uponit7771]

12. +1, we'll see ... if Manchin has been holding powder until now then he's the top 5 powder holders in

... history of mankind!!

[nebby70]

2. many things I'd call Manchin... but genius isn't on the list....

... didn't I read somewhere earlier this week that there were discussions of relieving him of his committee positions?

... having spent time in WV back in the day: trust me, Manchin is everything nasty you can think of calling him.

[Demsrule86]

13. Nah that is bullshit...he knows McConnell would give him anything he wants...this is how Joe

operates. And Biden is smart... he knows what it is to legislate...he reportedly told Joe, If you can do so good do but I understand if you can't.

[mopinko]

3. soooo sorry they didnt take the time to come up a decent anagram. .

[msdogi]

4. Best news in a long time

This has made me so happy, very well played

[Johnny2X2X]

5. If this comes off, wow

This will be the shrewdest move Dems have executed in my lifetime.

[underpants]

7. That's first paragraph is great

[mcar]

9. He's got a way

[OnDoutside]

10. Let's see......

[uponit7771]

11. "drops a new minimum tax on corporations." 👈🏾 **THIS** is big !!!

[mcar]

14. Right?