One more important fact about Joe Manchin. Won't be up for reelection until 2024.(elected in 2018)

[Stuart G]

He was reelected in 2018. Who knows what things will be like in 2024....One thing is for sure....

Joe Manchin doesn't care, that is 3 years away.

Maybe Joe Manchin won't run for reelection. That is why he doesn't care. Manchin doesn't have to worry till
2024, if he has to worry at all...And that is exactly why he voted against this bill. No consequences for this vote.
None at all.. Manchin like Trump is sure that there will be ...NO CONSEQUENCES TO WHAT HE DOES..

Also, Whatever they gave Manchin, ....Like Trump,,Manchin wants ...MORE, AND MORE, AND MORE!!!
iT AIN'T ENOUGH...NEVER ENOUGH...just MORE!

[pwb]

1. He has to live with himself.

He hurt so many for so few.

[Stuart G]

2. YOU are correct, but he doesn't care about anyone but himself...Like Trump..Proof?

..Manchin went on Fox News...to present the news. You do know who Fox News represents?. NOT US

[Tickle]

10. That really pissed

me off. He should have had the decency to tell the president and his coworkers first. He’s a dink

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. Like he gives a shit.

I love when people say this about any kind of depraved person. As if they’re going to sit there and beat themselves up over their horrible deeds instead of relishing the memories. He won’t lose a second of sleep. He doesn’t care at all about any of those people.

[pwb]

4. Whatever you think.

I would not want to be him.

[BlueTsunami2018]

6. It could be worse.

Super rich, super powerful, country hanging on your every move. If he wasn’t so old, it wouldn’t be too bad a place to be. Objectively speaking.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Narcissists/sociopaths don't have empathy or shame.

He will live with himself just fine.
Because he is the only one he cares about.

[at140]

7. Statement from Manchin...

Manchin said in a statement Sunday: “My Democratic colleagues in Washington are determined to dramatically reshape our society in a way that leaves our country more vulnerable to the threats we face. I cannot take that risk with a staggering debt of more than $29 trillion and inflation taxes that are real and harmful to every hard-working American at the gasoline pumps, grocery stores and utility bills with no end in sight.”

[maxsolomon]

9. He's basically saying "no new spending"

because of the debt. Yet the Military budget continues to bloat and no one bats an eye.

WTF are the "threats we face"? He'll never explain.

[at140]

11. Don't get me started about the military spending

Yeah we need those 5000 nukes and thousand planes to drop them where?

[maxsolomon]

12. My standard response to anyone who whinges about the debt or deficit is

Cut the DOD by 1/3. Problem solved.

[onecaliberal]

13. But he didn't have a care in the world while republicans redistributed

96% of the wealth in this country upwards. The trillions in tax relief for banks. The bailouts for corporations. I’m sickened by his vile existence and ability to hurt so many Americans. His ability talk out his ass in 50 different ways sounds a lot like his “friends” on the other side of the isle.

[maxsolomon]

8. One more important fact: he is the only possible Dem Senator from WV

Another important fact: like many many Senators, he is a rich blockhead.

Manchin and his ilk are impervious to persuasion, because their willful ignorance is validated by their wealth. He knows he's right; further, he doesn't have to explain himself in any rational way.

Thus has the Senate always been - full of rich blockheads. It is a profoundly dysfunctional branch of government, and it perhaps the Constitution's greatest flaw.

[Polybius]

14. Jim Justice will probably run in 2024

I think there's a solid chance he beats Manchin.

[Mr.Bill]

15. It was very telling when he said

He has tried as hard as he could, but just could not justify supporting the bill.

In light of the fact that 48 or 49 (don't know about Sinema) of his Democratic colleagues have been able to support the bill, maybe, just maybe, the problem is not the bill, it is him.

Sort of like when the bartender is very friendly to everyone in the room, but is rude to you. Maybe it's not the bartender.