Manchin’s Inflation Pivot: Voting for Dems’ Splurge
For the last several months, Sen. Joe Manchin has been assuring the American public that he would not support additional government spending, for fear of adding to already runaway inflation (“Manchin’s Inflation BS,” Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, July 2).
Once again, however, Americans were lied to by a Democrat. I’m sure that whatever Sen. Chuck Schumer promised Manchin in return for his betrayal, it will not change the inevitable “red wave” that the Democrats will suffer in November.
If anything, it will serve to reinforce the truth that Democrats are not to be trusted and, once and for all, put an end to the fairy tale about the existence of a “moderate” Democrat. Jack Kaufman
Naples, Fla.
The Democrats have announced yet again that they’re going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars — and that this suicidal spending will lower our debt.
Could the Democrats please teach us deplorables how to do that? I would love to learn how to spend more than I earn and at the same time lower my debt.
If that really were possible, and if the Democrats really could do it, I would always vote for them. But since I know it is impossible and a complete lie, I will never vote for them.
John Dumary, Jr.
Duanesburg
The Democrats needed his vote desperately on the misnamed “Inflation Reduction” bill.
So it seems that Manchin decided he would sell his vote for a pipeline in West Virginia.
Manchin is not stupid. He recognizes that the House of Representatives will not be controlled by the Democrats after Congress changes hands this fall. It will be harder in the future to “sell his vote” again to help the Democrats. And he is right.
David F. Lipton
Toms River, NJ
It looks like West Virginia will get a Republican senator next time Manchin’s term is up. He’s selling his constituents down the river and caving to the leftist green loonies in the Democratic Party.
Supposedly against any tax-raising schemes by the Democrats, Manchin just let Schumer snooker him. What a patsy.
Walter Goldeski East Brunswick, NJ