Appearing on ‘Fox News Sunday,’ Sen. Joe Manchin said he could not support President Biden and Nancy Pelosi’s multi-trillion-dollar spending plan, tanking Build Back Bankrupt.
In “The Hollow Men,” poet T. S. Eliot wrote that the world would end not with a bang but a whimper. To much of the left, their world (for the time being, anyway) ended Sunday morning on a Fox News soundstage.
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, indicated he could not support the multi-trillion-dollar spending plan President Biden and congressional Democrats had spent the second half of this year working to enact.
“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there….This is a no on this legislation. I have tried everything I know to do,” Manchin said.
Procedurally, Manchin’s comments carry no official weight. Democrats could still work to rewrite the legislation to meet his concerns and resurrect its chances for passage, much as they did with Obamacare following the shock election of Republican Scott Brown to Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate seat in January 2010.
But tonally, it feels like the end of the road, with Manchin speaking in a resigned, even deflated tone, much more in sorrow than in anger. If he could not bring himself to support the legislation after nearly six months of negotiations and deliberations, it seems unlikely that anyone or anything could get him to...
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