Commentary West Virginia’s Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) chose the setting of the Sunday morning cable talk show circuit this past weekend to officially report he will not vote in favor of the current version of President Biden’s so-called Build Back Better (BBB) boondoggle. With all 50 Democrat senators needed (plus Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker) for passage, this has effectively killed the signature legislative initiative of the Biden administration. Recriminations have come fast and hard at Manchin from the Democrat Party, the most extreme progressives (all of whom are in favor of democracy provided you agree and vote with them), and their slavish media operatives. To them, Manchin is responsible now for all manner of evil that will befall the poor, downtrodden, minorities, etc. who will no longer have the nanny state providing quite everything, as it might have done had BBB passed. Specifically for our present purposes …
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