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Now Claims To Oppose Obama Despite Unabashedly Supporting Him In 2008 When Barack Obama was the Democratic nominee for President in 2008, he had no greater friend and supporter than then-West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, despite Obama’s demonstrated record as an anti-coal, big government liberal.  At press conferences and campaign events, Manchin said he was “totally committed to Senator Barack Obama being the next President of the United States,” and routinely shared his view that Obama was the right leader at the right time to lead America forward and get the economy back on track.   And even after Obama lost West Virginia by 13 points in the 2008 election, Manchin still wholeheartedly endorsed Obama’s massive stimulus spending bills, telling West Virginians that the Obama stimulus “would make a big difference in the job market” and that it had provided a “shot in the arm” to West Virginia.   Over the last…

Top Court To Examine Obama-Manchin ‘Individual Mandate’ As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul, West Virginia voters are reminded that U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) voted earlier this year to keep the measure, known as ObamaCare, as the law of the land. The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul – a case that could shake the political landscape just as voters are about to decide if Obama deserves another term. The decision to hear arguments in the spring allows plenty of time for a decision in late June, just over four months before Election Day. This sets up an election-year showdown over the White House’s main domestic policy achievement. The justices announced they will hear more than five hours of arguments, an extraordinarily long session,…

Votes For Yet Another Massive Stimulus Bill, Despite Opposition From Major Small-Business Groups Even as virtually every major small-business group expressed their concern that a new, permanent tax on America’s job creators would “significantly impair” job creation, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) once again voted in lockstep with President Obama today in support of yet another round of massive government spending – making Manchin three-for-three when it comes to voting for Obama’s “stimulus” spending proposals, despite claiming he’s concerned “about the level of spending that President Obama has proposed.” “It seems Joe Manchin has never met one of President Obama’s big government spending bills that he didn’t like, and today’s vote is just another example of his reckless spending record in Washington,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond said today.  “It also represents a defining difference in next year’s election – Joe Manchin believes it’s the federal government that…

Dependably Supports Obama Spending Proposals Despite Claiming Concern “About The Level Of Spending That President Obama Has Proposed” As Democrat U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) prepares to hold a press conference at 1:30PM today with Obama Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to tout President Obama’s latest spending proposal, a $50 billion “infrastructure” stimulus, West Virginians are reminded that – despite claiming he’s concerned “about the level of spending that President Obama has proposed” – Manchin is three-for-three in voting for Obama’s “stimulus” spending proposals. As Manchin and his friends in the Obama Administration once again tout taxpayer-funded “shovel-ready” “infrastructure” projects, the Washington Post reports today that federal watchdog Gregory H. Freidman – who first raised concerns over the ongoing Solyndra scandal – is “critical of the administration for touting the existence of ‘shovel ready’ projects [in the original $825 billion ‘stimulus’] that needed federal funding in order to be quickly completed.” …

In 2008, then-Governor Joe Manchin told West Virginians that he would be supporting Barack Obama’s $825 billion stimulus, because it was a “jobs” bill that would help repair America’s aging roads and bridges – even going so far as to say his friend, then-President-elect Obama was “not just throwing money at this [recession]. He wants to make sure there are investments and value.” But after the bill passed the House of Representatives, it was revealed that, in fact, only 5 percent of the so-called “stimulus” was spent on infrastructure.  A few months later, it was revealed that billions of dollars were given to tax cheats and millions of dollars were spent in fictitious congressional districts like a $1,000,000 project in West Virginia’s non-existent “54th Congressional District.” Now that it’s been widely accepted that the first stimulus was a boondoggle that never lived up to Obama and Manchin’s promises, Manchin and…

More Bad News For Manchin As ObamaCare Approval Hits An All-Time Low As Democrat Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) struggles to defend his support of ObamaCare, this month’s Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows that both Manchin and President Obama have even greater reason to fear West Virginia voters at the polls next year: their 2,700 page, $2.5 trillion health care law is less popular than ever. The poll’s summary and toplines show a bleak picture for Manchin, Obama, and their fellow Washington Democrats: Overall favorability of the law stands at 34%, an all-time low; The percentage of very favorable support stands at 12%, an all-time low; The percentage of respondents who think they personally will be better off due to the law stands at a mere 18%, an all-time low; The percentage of respondents who think the country as a whole will be better off due to the law…

Senate Democrats Seek $1.3 Trillion In New Tax Hikes & $300 Billion In New Stimulus Spending, Instead of Serious Spending Cut Proposals In August, Congress created the bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the “Supercommittee,” with a mandate of trimming government borrowing by at least $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. At the time, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) tried, and failed, to get himself a seat on the committee, and he said days ago that the committee “should strive for a responsible deficit-reduction package” that will “put our economy back on the right track.”  Over the last 24 hours, however, voters in West Virginia have started to get a better idea of what, exactly, Senator Manchin and his fellow liberal Democrats in Congress meant by that. Late yesterday, Senate Democrats leaked their current proposal to numerous media outlets, and its highlights include $1.3 trillion in…

Again Ignores Concerns Of West Virginia Small Business Owners Just days after a bipartisan coalition representing over 1.8 million small businesses in West Virginia and across the country made clear in no uncertain terms that it would further harm their ability to create and grow jobs, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) ignored the concerns of West Virginia’s job creators and today voted in favor of President Obama’s latest stimulus proposal, which includes a massive tax hike on West Virginia business owners. As President Obama’s own Treasury Department acknowledges, four out of five people who would be hit by the Manchin-Obama surtax are business owners – the same people we need to create new jobs.  Fortunately, the latest Manchin-Obama stimulus proposal was defeated in a bipartisan vote this evening. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, but that’s exactly what Senator…

In what Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill called a “shocking development” last night, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and his Senate Democrat bosses rashly used what is known as the “nuclear option” to suddenly kill a key Senate rule that protects the democratic rights of the minority party. Politico reports that the power grab “threatens to further inflame partisan tensions and stymie legislative action,” while the Atlantic notes that it “may fundamentally diminish the powers of the minority party in the Senate,” and that “both liberals and conservatives are troubled by what may come of it.” Notably, in 2005, the late U.S. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) compared the “nuclear option” “to Hitler’s success in winning dictatorial powers from the German parliament.”  As the Allentown Morning Call reported at the time: In March, Santorum took U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., to task for comparing the Republican proposal on curbing filibusters —…