{"id":1726662,"date":"2022-11-06T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726662"},"modified":"2022-11-06T22:06:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T03:06:54","slug":"charles-lipson-manchins-rebuke-shows-how-toxic-bidens-energy-views-are-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charles-lipson-manchins-rebuke-shows-how-toxic-bidens-energy-views-are-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Lipson: Manchin\u2019s Rebuke Shows How Toxic Biden\u2019s Energy Views Are"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcharles-lipson-manchins-rebuke-shows-how-toxic-bidens-energy-views-are-2%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=1726662&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\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1242547070.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s not often that a senator launches a brutal, frontal assault on a president from his own party. It\u2019s even rarer when he does it just before a national election. But that is exactly what West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin just did to Joe Biden. At issue was Biden\u2019s recent speech attacking coal, a bedrock of the West Virginia economy. Manchin was furious over Biden\u2019s promise to shut down <em>all <\/em>of America\u2019s coal-fired power plants.<\/p>\n<p>That view might be red meat for Biden\u2019s audience of green-power advocates and rich California donors, but it is poison in West Virginia. And it is those West Virginians who elected Manchin, the only Democrat still standing in a state that is now deep red.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin didn\u2019t just criticize Biden. He blasted him full-bore, and threw the lifeless carcass over his shoulder on the way back to the truck:<\/p>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs. \u2026Being cavalier about the loss of coal jobs for men and women in West Virginia and across the country who literally put their lives on the line to help build and power this country is offensive and disgusting. The President owes these incredible workers an immediate and public apology and it is time he learn a lesson that his words matter and have consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Shutting down coal-fired plants is hardly a new position for Biden. He said as much while campaigning for president. But why return to that theme just before an election when high energy prices are already a political burden? Some combination of Biden\u2019s usual foot-in-mouth disease, his quest for rich donors, and an effort to spur turnout among base voters.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s position on coal comes with a high political price tag, not only among West Virginians, who already opposed him, but with average voters nationwide who are being reminded how much they are paying for Democrats\u2019 opposition to fossil fuels as the first heating bills of the season arrive. That\u2019s bad news for Biden and his party, which is why it is not a good issue for him to stress.<\/p>\n<p>What are the political consequences of Manchin\u2019s attack?<\/p>\n<p>The first and most obvious is that it is smart politics in West Virginia, which not only depends on coal but no longer elects Democrats. Manchin has survived solely because of his personal popularity. He is in office in spite of his party label, not because of it. It makes perfect sense for him to disassociate from Biden and the national party, especially on energy issues.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Manchin\u2019s criticism puts Biden in an untenable lose-lose position. If the president apologizes, as Manchin demands, he not only looks weak, he loses the party activists and donors he was appealing to. If he refuses to retract his statement, he hurts Democratic senatorial candidate Tim Ryan, running in Ohio, where coal is a major economic driver in the southeastern part of the state. Ryan will undoubtedly try to distance himself from Biden\u2019s comments, but that takes him off-message and hurts him among the wealthier environmentalist voters who are now a core Democratic constituency. Moreover, Biden\u2019s comments remind Ohioans that electing Ryan will help Democrats keep a Senate majority and allow them to advance Biden\u2019s agenda, including his opposition to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Third, Manchin\u2019s blast sets the stage for him to switch from \u201cDemocrat\u201d to \u201cindependent\u201d and possibly caucus with Republicans if they take the Senate or split it 50-50 (counting Manchin as a Democrat). Manchin\u2019s leverage in the current Congress depends entirely on his status as a swing vote, essential for the Democrats to pass legislation. That leverage could disappear after Tuesday, depending on how many seats the Republicans pick up in the Senate. A close split would leave considerable clout in the hands of centrists Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (both Democrats) and Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski (if she wins). But if Manchin is thinking of running again in 2024, he\u2019ll surely want to reconsider his affiliation with a party so unpopular in his home state.<\/p>\n<p>As for Biden, a dominant theme of his presidency has become \u201ccleanup in aisle four.\u201d The White House might as well station a permanent clean-up crew there, given how common are the president\u2019s gaffes, fumbles, and misstatements. So too with his unpopular policies, which have driven the vast majority of voters to tell pollsters the country is on the wrong track.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and his party have earned that discontent, and his latest comments remind us why. Voters are likely to show their unhappiness at the ballot box on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that a senator launches a brutal, frontal assault on a president from his own party. 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