Government by Joe Manchin

 Due to the Democrats being out of touch with the American people the best they could do was a split government. They celebrated Biden's win like he was the savior of American politics. Truth is anyone who could not beat the traitor Trump would have been the biggest political loser in 200 years. Biden's coattails were just enough to get a split in the Senate, not enough to ensure legislative victories. 

Obama had his Blue Dog Democrats, yet, he still got legislation (like the ACA) passed. He lost majority in the mid terms and with Republicans vowing obstructionism, that was the last shot at true liberal government. He couldn't even stop the Republicans from denying him his Supreme Court nominee. 

The split in Congress is even thinner now, which is sad because now any legislative progress will be due to only one man, Joe Manchin, a Democrat.  It shows how weak the Democrats are that one of their own is going to derail their most important legislation. 

Manchin is telling Democratic Congressional leaders right now what the bill will include and what it will not. It's not the first time one Senator has had so much influence over a piece of legislation,  but it is one of the few times a member of the party in power has had its agenda stopped by one of its own party members. 

Political pundits are predicting a Republican win for the mid terms. Not because Republicans have a superior political philosophy, strategy, or policies, but because Democrats are to weak to get Americans to vote for their policies.  Democrats should take the advice Mrs. Clinton gave a few weeks ago on one of the Sunday news shows, but apparently Democrats are more interested in demonizing Trump as Hitler and Republicans as Nazis to try and understand how they could actually win the mid term elections. So majority will go back to the Republicans. 

Anyone who thinks Trump cannot win the presidency again does not understand why 10's of millions of voters vote for him. You can cry all you want about the Democratic candidate getting more popular votes, while Trump wins the Electoral College and becomes president. 

One of the ideas that will lose the election for the Democrats is de-funding the police.  For a violent country of over 300 million this is one of the dumbest political ideas to come along in a century. President Biden has denounced the idea repeatedly, but the party is still embracing it. The American people are not for it, and they will not vote for candidates supporting it. 

Do you still think Biden can get Republicans to vote for his liberal policies? 

In the meantime, get ready for government by one person, Joe Manchin. 

 

Update:

All mourning long the Democrats have been going in front of the cameras blasting Joe Manchin.  These Democrats really know how to shoot themselves in the foot.  So he won't vote for this bill, but don't they think they will need his vote for other bills in 2022? McConnell has been trying to get Manchin to change parties for a long time. If Democrats piss him off he might just change sides. Which means Republicans will become the majority party without even winning an election.