As RedState reported yesterday, Joe Manchin signaled he could scuttle the entirety of Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. While Democrats had “agreed” to most of his terms in regards to a top-line number, they did so with a variety of budget gimmicks, many of which were used during the Obamacare debacle as well. Namely, projecting the use of multiple years of tax receipts to “pay for” lesser years of various entitlement programs.
This is called a Ponzi scheme in the real world. In Washington, it’s called business as usual, at least for the left side of the aisle on Capitol Hill. Yet, Manchin wasn’t having it this time, pledging that he will not be voting for a bill that contains such sleight-of-hand.
That made the progressive wing apoplectic. Cori Bush was nominated for craziest Congressional representative and launched a vicious attack upon Manchin. Truly, it’s one of the most insane statements by a national politician I’ve ever seen.
Joe Manchin cannot decide what the future holds for our country. pic.twitter.com/aG7zBuyMQy
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) November 1, 2021
Let’s just start at the beginning where Bush asserts that “Joe Manchin does not get to dictate the future of the country.” That’s actually correct, but not in the way Bush means it. Manchin’s role isn’t to dictate the future. 52 senators have been elected. There is still a Republican Party, which holds 50 US Senate seats. Their votes count just as much as Bernie Sanders’ does. That Manchin isn’t voting party-line on Biden’s wildest dreams does not mean the system isn’t working or that a single person is controlling the country. Math is hard, but it’s not that hard.
Bush then continues by inadvertently admitting her biggest problem: She never should have made promises she can’t keep. Missouri isn’t New York. The United States of America is not California. Dishonesty was displayed by telling voters she wouldn’t give them anything but rainbows and unicorns. She now has to accept her failure. That’s not on Joe Manchin. That’s on Cori Bush.
Then we get to the Democrat civil war moment you’ve been waiting for.
With Democrats needing Manchin on board to pass absolutely anything at this point, Bush doesn’t try to find common ground. He is ridiculely accused of racism by her. In one sentence: chauvinism, xenophobia and chauvinism. Bush ends her sentence by demanding that Bush bend his knees and do whatever she wishes.
You’re welcome. Manchin knows where his bread is buttered, and it’s not by members of the “squad.” It’s by voters in West Virginia. He will be more hated by these radicals the harder his opponents become. Yet, Bush is so intellectually vapid that she can’t even grasp the most basic rule of legislating: When you’ve got no leverage, you do not trash those who have it.
Missouri does not send its best.
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