{"id":1149787,"date":"2021-12-24T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1149787"},"modified":"2021-12-24T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T14:34:44","slug":"2021-man-of-the-year-joe-manchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2021-man-of-the-year-joe-manchin\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Man of the Year: Joe Manchin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2021-man-of-the-year-joe-manchin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1149787&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/manchin-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin doesn\u2019t always get it right. But when he does, it\u2019s spectacular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In between throwing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/02\/lindsey-graham-reveals-covid-infection-lauds-vaccine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>COVID parties<\/span><\/a><span> on his 60-foot yacht, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/04\/activists-swarm-manchins-maserati-in-dc-garage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>fleeing from<\/span><\/a><span> climate protesters in his Maserati, and hanging out with his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/07\/politics\/manchin-defends-bresch-mylan-epipen-price\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Pharma-villain daughter<\/span><\/a><span>, Manchin has still found time to own more libs than the entire GOP combined this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sure, his latest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/19\/politics\/joe-manchin-build-back-better\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>decision<\/span><\/a><span> to blow up President Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous Build Back Better plan was probably based more on political expediency than on principle. Manchin is the last federal Democrat standing in a state that voted 68 percent for Donald Trump in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Still, it has been great to watch him torch The Squad\u2019s socialist dreams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvpublic.org\/news\/2015-04-07\/with-hopes-to-curb-couch-burning-morgantown-passes-outdoor-furniture-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>like an old sofa<\/span><\/a><span> after a Mountaineers game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some highlights from Manchin\u2019s repeated gut-punches to progressives include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Dashing plans to scrap the filibuster<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Killing a voting bill that would have made it easier for Democrats to commit election fraud<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Blocking the nomination of Neera Tanden for director of the Office of Management and Budget, due to rude Tweets<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Torpedoing BBB<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake. The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, and the entire free world, will never forget that Manchin cast the deciding vote to confirm a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/manchin-caves-on-colin-kahl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>mullah-supporting<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/ph-dj-moonlights-as-bidens-national-security-adviser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>amateur DJ<\/span><\/a><span> to oversee defense policy at the Pentagon last spring\u2014a decision that many experts <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/republicans-blame-pentagon-planner-colin-kahl-for-bungled-afghanistan-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>blame<\/span><\/a><span> for the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. We also reserve the right to revoke Manchin\u2019s Man of the Year award if he caves on BBB or casts any other terrible future votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But based on his relentless determination to hinder the left&#8217;s socialist domestic policy agenda at every turn in 2021, Joe Manchin is a <em>Washington <\/em><em>Free Beacon<\/em> Man of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin doesn\u2019t always get it right. But when he does, it\u2019s spectacular. In between throwing COVID parties on his 60-foot yacht, fleeing from climate protesters in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}