Senator Manchin, again
Recent articles and reactions to West Virginia's senator
The most recent articles on Joe Manchin include this to-the-point article by Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell:
Manchin's coal corruption is so much worse than you knew https://t.co/fILHTw0X2d
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 10, 2022
From the article:
The truth is, Manchin is best understood as a grifter from the ancestral home of King Coal. He is a man with coal dust in his veins who has used his political skills to enrich himself, not the people of his state. He drives an Italian-made Maserati, lives on a houseboat on the Potomac River when he is in D.C., pals around with corporate CEOs, and has a net worth of as much as $12 million. More to the point, his wealth has been accumulated through controversial coal-related businesses in his home state, including using his political muscle to keep open the dirtiest coal plant in West Virginia, which paid him nearly $5 million over the past decade in fees for coal handling, as well as costing West Virginia electricity consumers tens of millions of dollars in higher electricity rates (more about the details of this in a moment).
This is a well-developed article about the senator.
In New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait refutes Manchin's bogus claim about the filibuster:
It's revealing that the most common defense of the filibuster is a completely false history https://t.co/EEALELzYcp
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) January 11, 2022
A few words from Senator Capito
Republicans kept the Senate’s rules intact when we held the majority.
— Shelley Moore Capito (@SenCapito) January 11, 2022
Instead of changing the rules to ram through an unpopular leftist agenda, Democrats should follow our example, preserve bipartisanship, and preserve the Senate. pic.twitter.com/xYAdAritl9
Follow your example, Senator? Yes. What happened with the U.S. Supreme Court appointments?
2022 Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on changing filibuster rules to pass voting rights: ❌😵😡
— The Recount (@therecount) January 10, 2022
2017 Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on changing filibuster rules to confirm Supreme Court justice: 🥰🥳💅 pic.twitter.com/UxSxhfDZN6