This. The media very much has a significant amount of blame for focusing more on the 10 year price tag as if this is a bill that does nothing but print new money. For so long, the actual contents of the bill have been swept under the rug - even the very popular parts - and people can’t even feign an opinion on less…

Three more seats, minimum. 1 for Manchin, 1 for Sinema, and the third to break the tie. 2/3 majority is the magic number, though.

Manchin would continue to move the goalposts no matter what they did with the bill. His owners will never accept any attacks on fossil fuels or taxes on wealth.

Oh fucking bullshit. The orginal proposal was for 4 TRILLION. This latest one is only a third of that.

I wonder which coal lobbyist literally dictated this to him.

Any provision that was set to run the whole 10 years was funded for the whole ten years. They had to keep cutting things back because Manchin and Sienma keep killing all the ways to paid for everything. Raise taxes on the super rich? NO! Give the IRS enough money to enforce the current tax code? NOT ON THEIR WATCH!

Getting democratic voters to show the fuck up for a midterm election is harder than viagra concrete.

I guess for them to get theirs - elect more liberals.

He says it every morning as he looks in the mirror. He and his family own a coal company.

The dipshit is trying to make the solutions (clean energy alternatives) the problem instead of the actual problem (climate change).

So he betrays his party, announces his intention to do so on Fox News, and does it all a week before Christmas. That, children, is what we call an asshole hat trick.

If only the media started going after him for his ties to the coal industry. But they won’t because they care more about access and austerity.

“If enacted, the bill will also risk the reliability of our electric grid and increase our dependence on foreign supply chains. The energy transition my colleagues seek is already well underway in the United States of America. In the last two years, as Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and…

God bless the Senate! It truly is a gift to the entire world that a career politician from West Virginia (population: 1.8 million) hold up a monumental piece of legislation that is favored by a majority of Americans (population: 330 million). Even the Turtle must be jealous of Joe’s special moment.

This is the costs of not having “purity tests”.

Or steal from the bank.

You can still do that, it’s just going to get a bit expensive 

It’s not monopoly if I can’t flip the board over while screaming and storm out of the room.

“The guy in the truck deserves to get strung up by the truck nuts.”

For speed bumps, yes. Speed humps however are less annoying for drivers obeying the speed limit, but they’d straight up yeet that truck.