{"id":400700,"date":"2021-06-07T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=400700"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:03:01","slug":"manchin-slams-brakes-on-the-democrat-plan-to-transform-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/06\/07\/manchin-slams-brakes-on-the-democrat-plan-to-transform-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin Slams the Brakes on Democrat Plan to Transform America"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: Tongues are wagging right now, because of what it was, that Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat from West Virginia said yesterday…Well, he wrote it. Let\u2019s be honest. He wrote it in an op-ed piece that appeared in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, published on Sunday. Senator Manchin said he plans to vote against the House-passed For the People Act. We know that as HR1. It was the 800-page monstrosity, or it is the 800-page monstrosity.<\/p>\n

That would fundamentally transform the way we conduct elections in this country, essentially federalizing elections, essentially getting rid of voter ID requirements. And most notably, it would create a brand-new — if you can imagine, a brand-new — entitlement for people who want to run for office. They would essentially receive a stipend or a salary to run for office financed by you and me, the taxpayer.<\/p>\n

So here comes Joe Manchin, who is somebody along with Senator Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona, that have been huge thorns in the sides of progressives and Speaker Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, because they have said, “We\u2019re not getting rid of the filibuster. We do not want to get rid of this filibuster. Elections have consequences. There will be another election soon happening, coming up here in about 500 days.<\/p>\n

“And we know what could happen, for Republicans, understandably if we scrap the filibuster, decide they want to change everything up. It would create this insane pendulum swinging back and forth from election to election with no break in sight for how it is you handle things.” So here comes West Virginia\u2019s Senator Joe Manchin writing, “I\u2019m not going to support this. I\u2019m going to vote against the House-passed For the People Act,” which is said to be taken up by the Senate at the end of June.<\/p>\n

Joe Manchin explained himself on the Sunday programs yesterday. Here\u2019s what he said, the reason he was voting against it was.<\/p>\n

\"\"MANCHIN: I think it\u2019s the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together and unite our country, and I\u2019m not supporting that because I think it would divide us further. If we continue to divide it and separate us more, it\u2019s not gonna be united, and it\u2019s not gonna be the country that we love and know, and it will be hard, because it will be back and forth no matter who is in power.<\/p>\n

BRETT: He was talking to Chris Wallace over on Fox News Sunday. He made the rounds though. He was on Face the Nation and a number of different outlets. Now, Joe Manchin… I know we used to laugh when we would refer to “the Kennedy seat.” Remember when Rush would talk about the Kennedy seat? “There\u2019s the Kennedy seat in Massachusetts from the Senate.”<\/p>\n

Well, Joe Manchin sits in the Robert Byrd seat. I\u2019m only using that as an example. But he\u2019s in the Robert Byrd seat, and he understands — as a former governor of West Virginia — what a precarious position he\u2019s in, because it\u2019s essentially a red state that still votes for Democrats like Joe Manchin. And he understands that if they blow up that filibuster and it becomes a whole-hog kind of situation with Chuck Schumer being able to run amuck with everything, he\u2019s going to have a disaster on his hands. and the people of West Virginia are going to be irate.<\/p>\n

But what about the broader picture? I would submit to you — in the spirit of what Rush might say, but I would submit to you — that this is a perfect time to be a conservative. There may not have been a better time in the last few years to be a conservative than right now. It\u2019s wonderful to be winning, right?<\/p>\n

It was wonderful to be winning when President Trump was in office and we were racking up tax cuts and we were racking up successes on the international stage, the Abraham Accords, all that. That was phenomenal. But it\u2019s when your country needs you most — it is when we are in a precarious situation — that conservatism really matters and jumps through to the heart of every American patriot.<\/p>\n

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