Bipartisan Joe:

#ICYMI: This week, the Senate Appropriations Committee advanced three bipartisan bills, and I'm proud to announce I secured many #WV priorities. I’m committed to bringing back regular order, doing our job, and passing funding bills on time to deliver these crucial resources to WV pic.twitter.com/3N2t8vGMNO

— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) July 15, 2023

While the specific “bipartisan” legislation is not mentioned, I assume this is one of those “bipartisan” bills:

Ted Cruz, Joe Manchin secure gas stove protection bill in must-pass govt funding package https://t.co/OmUajFDQS2

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 14, 2023

(Is it just me or is there a direct correlation between bipartisanship and the meaninglessness of the legislation.)

And here’s Senator Joe working with Republicans to block a Biden nominee:

Why is Joe Manchin's opposition to qualified Biden nominees so tough to defend? As @stevebenen writes, part of the problem is that he supported worse Trump nominees for the same positions. https://t.co/RqkyK65DNr

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 15, 2023

Still more Manchin mischief: tomorrow will bring an announcement from the No Labels Party and Joe will be there:

Ahead of event tomorrow with Sen. Joe Manchin, No Labels national director Joe Cunningham on criticism a third-party ticket would hurt Biden: "Everyone is scratching their heads looking at these two presumptive nominees thinking to themselves, 'Is this the best we've got?'" pic.twitter.com/d79OzsErNG

— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) July 16, 2023

(And for those scratching their heads, how would adding Joe Manchin to the mix make the election any better?)

Finally, I did not know this but, according to Alex Mooney, there apparently exists a “liberal Joe Manchin” who is quite similar to “liberal Jim Justice”? I guess if you go so far right on the political spectrum, everyone looks like a liberal to you:

Liberal @JoeManchinWV wants to fund the IRS to hunt down Americans. Yet, he owed taxes on personal property and real estate.

Do we have another King of Scandals?https://t.co/06L575CglC

— Alex Mooney (@MooneyforWV) July 12, 2023

Mooney calls Manchin “King of Scandals”? Pot, meet kettle. Hey Alex, at least Senator Joe didn’t have to trade his vote for House Speaker to make his repeated ethics violations go away.