Manchin saving Democrats from themselves

 Red States:

After Joe Biden came in, it seemed like the last grip on reality that he or other Democrats had went flying off into the sunset, never to be seen again.

In its place, many of the Democrats have gone into wild hysterics, pitching all kinds of crazy to demonize their opponents and/or any of the policies that they don’t like.

We’ve seen that regarding so many issues. We saw it again in their reaction to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) killing any hopes for a revival of Biden’s spending package, if it contains climate change or tax increases in light of where we are with the economy. Manchin is saving the country from further crushing inflation, but the other Democrats don’t see that. Or, if they do, they don’t let it stop their spending ambitions.

It would be much worse at this point if Manchin had not stopped Biden and the other Democrats from passing Build Back Better. Manchin is also ultimately saving the Democrats from themselves on the filibuster as well. If the Republicans take over the Senate in November, then the Democrats will be in the minority and begging to have the filibuster back. Indeed, the last year they were in the minority, they used it more than 327 times. Yet, they seem unconcerned about that very likely eventuality, still screaming to get rid of the filibuster–without a thought to how that might very well do them in, in the future.

For Manchin, it’s about the country and what the people back in West Virginia think, and they don’t want the crazy spending that Joe Biden and the other Democrats desire.
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Manchin is saving them from their own mistakes.  Without Manchin, the Democrats would have compounded the inflation problem they created with their massive spending.  He seems to be one of the few voices of sanity in the Democrat party.

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