Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is being aggressively targeted in a left-wing campaign to bully him into submission vis-à-vis President Joe Biden’s bloated $1.75 trillion Build Back Better spending program.
Among the prominent leftists who’ve been berating the moderate Democrat into backing Biden’s radical agenda are billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Politico reported Friday.
“Manchin has told colleagues that his phone line has been lighting up with prominent names outside the Senate in recent days,” an insider told Politico. “He’s heard from former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and talk-show legend Oprah Winfrey.”
Manchin opposes Build Back Better, saying it will cause inflation to soar even higher and increase the national debt by $3 trillion over the next decade.
More important, the senator said, passing the exorbitant legislation is not what his constituents want.
Unlike most Democrats, Manchin is actually doing his job — which is to represent the will of his West Virginia constituents — and not the interests of limousine liberals who live in California or Martha’s Vineyard.
The fact that Democrats have called in the A-list “big dogs” to hound Manchin into submission underscores how desperate they’ve become amid the multiple crises Biden has inflamed with his destructive policies.
To his credit, the centrist lawmaker has remained steadfast in the face of relentless bullying by left-wing mobs, who’ve intimidated him verbally and even physically to pass the Democrats’ cradle-to-grave social welfare legislation.
WARNING: The following video contains vulgar language.
Climate change protestors harass Joe Manchin and blockade his car: pic.twitter.com/t6zAoeDOmM
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) November 4, 2021
Manchin also has stated repeatedly that he does not support the Democrats’ unilateral move to end the filibuster in order to federalize elections and to jam through Biden’s pricey Build Back Better bill.
Hopefully, the former West Virginia governor will continue to stick to his principles, for the sake of his constituents as well as for the countless Americans who don’t want the United States to devolve into an authoritarian, socialist cesspool.
Winfrey’s presumptuous meddling underscores that rich celebrities have far more access to the political process than Heartland Americans.
Regular people can’t call senators on their personal phones to bully them into doing their bidding. However, because of Oprah’s wealth and connections, she has direct access to Manchin.
This is a major reason that so many Americans resent that clueless celebrities try to influence political outcomes while disregarding the tragic impact it has on the public at large.
A glaring example is how the left’s lionization of Black Lives Matter’s “defund the police” frenzy — in the name of “racial equity” — enabled violent crime waves in liberal cities that ultimately hurt black and brown people.
Too young to die: 21 kids killed in NYC street violence so far this year https://t.co/xdptLBtewU pic.twitter.com/Kg2VjavH5m
— New York Post (@nypost) October 2, 2021
Similarly, Biden’s reckless, taxpayer-funded spending spree will have devastating long-term financial and social consequences.
In a September 2021 Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Manchin lamented that “some in Congress have a strange belief there is an infinite supply of money to deal with any current or future crisis, and that spending trillions upon trillions will have no negative consequence for the future. I disagree.”
Joe Biden’s new spending bill:
-Grants amnesty to over 6 million illegal immigrants.
-Allows illegal immigrants to obtain government benefits
How does that help Americans in Ohio, West Virginia, or Arizona?
It doesn’t. https://t.co/EdkJc00YeE
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) December 1, 2021
The senator continued: “At $28.7 trillion and growing, the nation’s debt has reached record levels. Over the past 18 months, we’ve spent more than $5 trillion responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Now Democratic congressional leaders propose to pass the largest single spending bill in history with no regard to rising inflation, crippling debt or the inevitability of future crises. Ignoring the fiscal consequences of our policy choices will create a disastrous future for the next generation of Americans.”
Manchin hasn’t changed his stance since articulating his reasons for opposing Build Back Better months ago.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) responds to Democrat backlash following his announced opposition to Build Back Better:
“Well, guess what? I’m from West Virginia. I’m not from where they’re from, [where] they can just beat the living crap out of people and think they’ll be submissive.” pic.twitter.com/O9Z91mvPjp
— The Recount (@therecount) December 21, 2021
Hopefully, he’ll remain resolute and not cave to left-wing mob bullying.
Maybe Oprah needs to do something CONSTRUCTIVE and start a DIET!
Oprah DENIED her father from TELLING the TRUTH to AMERICANS about his Daughter!!
These HYPOCITES like Oprah Forget Where They Came From and they constantly stick their foot in their BIG MOUTHS!!
Oprah has money & now she can BULLY OTHERS AROUND like she did her father, once a liar & cheat, always a Liar & Cheat! Called DENIAL!!
Why has BIG MOUTH WINFREY got to put in her two cents worth? She needs to mind her own business. Stay out of politics. Do your thing on yo-yo diets and leave the politics alone. Obama think they know about politics but his record shows what a loser he was. Still is. Clinton’s can’t win at nothing but losing.
All you celebrities stay out of this
Three people who ” Built Better ” on the government dime …Nothing to see here , won’t cost them a penny . We , our kids , our kids kids etc etc will pay forever .Please , stop kicking the can down the road just so you can pass on your debt .
I think Clinton, Obama and Winfrey should keep their noses out of politics he has the right to do what he thinks best for the people of this country and Winfrey I used to think nice things about you you have lost it and I will not watch any of your programs.
oprah dish out some of your money and the same with bill and barrack
or better yet put them in the houses you own,
you made your money of the LEGAL citizens, you think these people are going to work ha ha ha, good joke,
all of you have had your claim to fame now sit back and shut up
ALMOST ALL DEMOCRATS ARE BULLIES!! LIARS, CHEATERS, THIEVES,
CORRUPT EVIL COMMUNISTS!!
I SAID ALMOST ALL.. THERE MIGHT BE ONE OR TWO THAT ARE HONEST.
The Build Back Better (BBB) slogan was stolen by Biden from the United Nations ( UN), he has never had an original thought. He is doing the bidding of the Globalists, while enriching his family. In order to build back you must tear down first, when they build back, your Country and Constitution will be gone! Watch listen how often you hear them speak of “the collective”, “equity”, “by any means necessary”; these are all socialist communist globalist phrases that appeal to the third World hordes they allow in the Country in violation of immigralaws passed by Congress! The model government for the globalists is China, is that the World you want to live in!?
ALL OF THOSE WORTHLESS AND USELESS JERKS AND HAS BENS FROM THE FAR LEFT SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPRECTRUM NEED TO SHUT THE HELL UP AS NOBODY
GIVES A DAMN ABOUT WHAT THEY THINK, ESPECIALLY THAT WORTHLESS PIECE
OF HUMAN WASTE FORMER POTUS BILL CLINTON.
BILL CLINTON, THE CLOWN OF THE CENTURY AND THE WORST. BARRACK OBAMA WHAT A JOKE PRESIDENT, BOTH DESERVE TO BE AT ARLINGTON, AND OPRAH A WOMAN WITHOUT RESPECT, MONEY DOES NOT BUY ANY OF YOU RESPECT OR THE HEAVENS, YOU ARE ALL HYPOCRITES THAT NEVER CARE FOR OUR COUNTRY, OBAMA ONLY CARE FOR CHINA, HE SOLD HIS LIFE TO THEM, CLINTON SOLD HIS LIFE TO LOLIT EXPRESS, MONICA, AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT DIE FOR HIS WRONG DOING. AND OPRAH, THE JOKE OF PROSTITUTION, YOU ALL HAVE NOTHING BUT ILL GOTTEN MONEY THAT DOES NOT MAKE YOU HAPPY. MANCHIN ON THE OTHER HAND IS A RESPECTFUL PERSON WITH A CLEAR VISION FOR OUR NATION AND THE PEOPLE AND HIS CONTISTUENT WHOM HAVE ELECTED HIM TO LEAD AND PROTECT THE GREAT STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. CLINTON, OBAMA YOU ARE ALL IRRESPONSABLE LAIRS, WHOM STOLE MONEY FROM OUR GOVERNMENT
He should have just Run Them Over!!!!!
OPRAH NEEDS TO STAY IN TENSEL TOWN.