Current Events > Joe Manchin demands Biden apologize for 'offensive and disgusting' coal comments

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Offensive and disgusting comments are the only kinds of comments you should be making about coal

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/05/manchin-biden-coal-comment-00065291

Joe Manchin clashed Saturday with President Joe Biden over the politics of coal a poorly timed breach between a pair of Democratic heavyweights just three days before voters head to the polls. In a statement Saturday morning, the West Virginia senator lambasted Bidens remarks a day earlier pledging to shut down Americas coal plants as offensive and disgusting. That prompted a quick response from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in an attempt to tamp down the conflict. The rupture between Biden and Manchin, both of whom are up for reelection in two years, is unwelcome news for Democrats endangered congressional majorities. The party is likely to lose the House next week and is fighting to keep its 50-50 Senate majority including competing in a pair of races in coal states. The run-in distracted from Democratic efforts to rally voters including by Biden and Barack Obama Saturday in Pennsylvania ahead of Election Day. After Republicans whacked Biden on Friday for saying that were going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar, Manchin stepped in on Saturday. He deemed Bidens comments not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs.

Comments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden, Manchin said, calling for Biden to apologize to mine workers. It seems his positions change daily depending on the audience and politics of the day. The schism could bleed into Democrats effort to defend the Senate. Biden is set to appear in Philadelphia Saturday with Senate hopeful John Fetterman. Fetterman and Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who is running for Senate in Ohio, are vying to represent states with a lineage of coal production. Neither had an immediate comment on Saturday on Bidens remarks. At least Joe Manchin has the balls to occasionally stand up to Joe Biden on energy. Cant say the same about John Fetterman and Tim Ryan, said Chris Hartline, a spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Coal politics is key to Manchins survival in deep-red West Virginia. He threatened to pull his support from Hillary Clintons presidential campaign in 2016 after she made a comment about putting a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business. And he spent a year and a half battling with his own party over most Democrats preference to move beyond fossil fuels to cleaner alternatives.

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Fuck coal. Even worse for the environment than gas.

dark brandon shouldn't apologize to him at all. he costed great programs that could've benefits society.

ChopinList posted...

a pair of Democratic heavyweights

Pretty sad that these two are considered democratic heavyweights.

How is it unwelcome news? Joe Manchin is unwelcome news. He's saying shit that's wildly unpopular with most of the country. Good. Just let him wallow in his on filth, no comment from the White House required.

I know where Manchin can shovel his coal

ChopinList posted...

It seems his positions change daily depending on the audience and politics of the day.

Translation; he changes his goals based on the needs and desires of his constituents.

Oh no say it ain't so

Maybe we should all stubbornly stick to regressive policies like idiots regardless of what happens .

Uh.. so I'm the only one who thinks it was a bad idea for Biden to decry coal power a few days before the election? Electrcity prices have shot up from like 13 cents a KWH to almost 17 since he took office. (source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610)

Yes I agree coal is bad but if you can't offset the production (30% of power in the USA is made by coal) then obviously everyone's power bill is going to shoot up even higher.
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Manchin can fuck off

I can't wait for Manchin and Sinema to be no longer relevant in the Senate.

Fuck manchin