Joe Manchin says Biden's remarks are "outrageous and divorced from reality"

[Polybius]

Sen. Joe Manchin on Saturday slammed President Joe Biden after he called for coal plants across the US to be shuttered, saying Biden’s remarks are “outrageous and divorced from reality” and suggesting it’s “time he learn a lesson.”

Biden, while speaking at a stop in Carlsbad, California, on Friday about the CHIPS and Science Act, said, “We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar also providing tax credit to help families buy energy-efficient appliances.”

Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who has longtime ties to the coal industry, seized on the comments in a statement on Saturday, calling them “not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs.”

“Comments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden and instead believes he does not understand the need to have an all in energy policy that would keep our nation totally energy independent and secure. It seems his positions change depending on the audience and the politics of the day. Politicizing our nation’s energy policies would only bring higher prices and more pain for the American people,” Manchin continued.

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[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Manchin

Might as well be republican the shit he says and all those stunts of his fucking around with with Biden's agenda. What a fucking DINO.

[GreenWave]

2. Hoping for a handful of pickups in the Senate to get back at this guy.

It is truly his fault and Cinema's that a great deal more was not accomplished despite tremendous odds.

[budkin]

3. POOR MANCHIN

He'll be irrelevant soon either way.

[W_HAMILTON]

4. "Bad things about Democrats"

[Polybius]

10. Yes, very much so

Manchin could have waited until Wednesday to speak up.

[W_HAMILTON]

13. Maybe he was taking his cue from you?

[jcgoldie]

5. looks like Manchin is more loyal to the fossil fuel industry than to democrats

Fuck him.

[gratuitous]

6. Isn't that cute? Master yanks Manchin's chain and he barks

[agingdem]

7. Manchin wants so desperately to be

the Samuel Alito of the Senate.. while ol' Sam has invested decades in his quest to diminish John Roberts (and has succeeded), Manchin does not have that kind of time, consequently he is determined to degrade Biden's stature, to appear more powerful than the President of the United States...that he is reviled by most Democrats (particularly Democratic women) is not something he cares to understand...I suspect he would sell his soul (if he had one) for a shot at the presidency but until then he's going to do his damndest to undermine Biden and the Democratic agenda..great guy that Manchin!

[mnhtnbb]

8. Joe Manchin will be irrelevant

when enough true Democrats are elected to the Senate.

[BlueIdaho]

9. Either way ManChin is irrelevant.

If we get more Democrats he’s yesterday’s news. And (god forbid) if the GQP takes over they won’t give him the time of day.

The Senator from Big Coal is about to be as lonely as the Maytag repairman.

[Polybius]

11. Unless we get the status quo

A 50-50 Senate is still very much possible again.

[Poiuyt]

12. I think the US should push for clean energy industries to open plants in West Virginia & Texas

That way, they wouldn't be so beholden to a dying industry.

[JCMach1]

14. Texas is by far the US leader in Wind Power

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/us-wind-electricity-generation-renewable-energy/

Shockingly enough Texas energy policy has helped push the industry... i.e. it's a weird conjunction with rural (typically RW Republican) landowners and ranchers and what might seem to be progressive energy policies. Literally, they wanted to expand their income streams.

But frankly, that's also how we will need to move forward on energy policy. We have to make profits and progressive energy policy align.