Senator Manchin and the Kochs
Is this the connection that explains our senator’s behavior?
Earlier today from CNBC:
. . .NEW: INSIDE the campaign by the Koch network to pressure @Sen_JoeManchin to oppose key pieces of his own party's agenda, including eliminating the filibuster and the For the People Act.
— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) June 8, 2021
- Radio ads have been launched in West Virginiahttps://t.co/P5UfzkQAw0
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We haven’t been paying enough attention to Narcissist Joe
with Monday update
From this morning's Charleston Gazette-Mail
Read it here.
The AP story
A Democratic senator says he will not vote for an overhaul of U.S. election law, virtually guaranteeing the failure of a top Biden administration priority. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia also restated his opposition to changing the . . .
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Government handouts: good for me, bad for thee
A look at how two local critics of federal pandemic relief aid for the unemployed fared under the Paycheck Protection Program
Ogden Newspapers
From a Wheeling Intelligencer editorial on May 7, 2021:
Bottom line: It’s time for Americans to get back to work. It’s high time for Congress to end the supplemental unemployment benefits.”
Translation: now that we’ve gotten our PPP money, it’s time to end government handouts!
In . . .
Jim Justice in the news
Anybody have some spare change to help out our governor? His dog?
Breaking story from the Wall Street Journal
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is personally on the hook for nearly $700 million in loans his coal companies took out from now-defunct Greensill Capital, according to people familiar with the loans and documents described to The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/kIEC9szTiD
— The Wall Street . . .
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More reactions to yesterday’s Senate vote to establish a January 6 commission
Doing the math, Senator Capito’s bogus excuse, and a different take on what this may mean for the Democrats
The vote totals
The vote was 54 in favor of moving forward with the commission to 35 against. Of course, under Senate rules, the 35 wins the vote:
51 senators can seat a Supreme Court justice but 54 senators can’t establish an independent commission to investigate a violent insurrection in their own damn building.
— Steven Mazie . . .
It's another edition of Bob Nutting's "Baseball on the Cheap"
You get what you pay for!
From the Pittsburgh Pirate/Chicago Cub baseball game earlier today:
This is the bottom.pic.twitter.com/2vMzUT67cb
— Dan Zangrilli (@DanZangrilli) May 27, 2021
I think Zangrilli is being optimistic.
More on Senator Manchin and a January 6 commission (updated)
(With Shelley Moore Capito update and Joe Manchin's after-the-vote reaction)
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin earlier today:
My statement on the January 6th Commission: pic.twitter.com/ZfNhQfKzmh
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) May 27, 2021
Is Manchin finally seeing the light? Probably not -- look at how he responds to a reporter's question about it:
More from MANCHIN on why he . . .
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