{"id":49117,"date":"2021-09-04T01:37:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49117"},"modified":"2021-09-04T01:37:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T01:37:11","slug":"sen-manchin-is-making-me-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49117","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Manchin is making me crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49120\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/download-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/download-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/download-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/download-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/download.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin seems to know how powerful he is, being an influential &#8220;moderate Democratic member&#8221; of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>He is flexing his political muscle with glee.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin speaks in favor of the infrastructure plan that puts a gleam in President Biden&#8217;s eye &#8230; and now he says Congress and the president need to &#8220;pause&#8221; on the effort to spend $3.5 trillion to fix our nation&#8217;s roads, bridges, rails, airports, ship channels, Internet and other matters.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because it&#8217;s too costly. Manchin, the cagey West Virginian, now stands as the one senator who can put the whole damn thing into dire jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Which it is, Sen. Manchin? It looks to me, sitting out here in the peanut gallery, that Manchin is using his muscle to satisfy a politician&#8217;s ego.<\/p>\n<p>That would be his own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin seems to know how powerful he is, being an influential &#8220;moderate Democratic member&#8221; of the Senate. He is flexing his political muscle with glee. Manchin speaks in favor of the infrastructure plan that puts a gleam in President Biden&#8217;s eye &#8230; and now he says Congress and the president need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sen. Manchin is making me crazy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[2273,2505,2514],"class_list":["post-49117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-infrastructure","tag-joe-biden","tag-joe-manchin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49121,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49117\/revisions\/49121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}