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Please, enough with your takes about how Biden is a legislative mastermind, wheeling and dealing like a modern-day LBJ. He is a bumbling buffoon, past his prime, over his peak, out of his depths. He is ready to trade it all away. For what? For nothing. (1/8)
The "permitting reform" deal somehow manages to all at once roll back the National Environmental Policy Act AND rubber-stamp approval of the 2,000,000,000-cubic-feet-per-day fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline. (2/8)
Meanwhile the potentially useful parts of permitting reform (updating the electrical grid and facilitating inter-region clean energy transfer) got punted indefinitely. Biden just got a "study" which would stall the issue for 1.5 years and bring no guarantee of future action (3/8)
So Biden literally got all the negative parts of permitting reform, and now all momentum will be lost for the good parts, whose fate will be much less certain now that they cannot ride the coattails of the broader package (4/8).
If Biden did this to curry favor with Manchin that was a horrible, horrible unforced error. With Democrats controlling 51 seats, Manchin is no longer the decisive vote. Even if he was, his past role of kingmaker is now nullified by the current Republican House (5/8).
Tossing Manchin MVP is like throwing a bone to a dog. You might get the dog to wag its tail but you will have zero impact on the dog's actions days, weeks or months down the line.
Manchin will do what he pleases. A pipeline from Biden won't suddenly make him a loyal Dem. (6/8)
Manchin will do what he pleases. A pipeline from Biden won't suddenly make him a loyal Dem. (6/8)
Trying to curry favor with Manchin via MVP is exactly as smart as trying to kiss up to Lisa Murkowski via Willow. There have been zero times in this presidency when Murkowski has been the decisive vote for Dem legislation. Zero. (7/8)
Biden is getting outsmarted. Outfoxed. Outmaneuvered.
He is getting shafted. Played. Completely, wholly, undeniably, utterly fucked.
He is embarrassing himself. He is making young people lose faith in politics. And he is trading away our future. For what? For nothing. (8/8)
He is getting shafted. Played. Completely, wholly, undeniably, utterly fucked.
He is embarrassing himself. He is making young people lose faith in politics. And he is trading away our future. For what? For nothing. (8/8)
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