President Joe Biden welcomed the notion of tying Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) oil and gas drilling legislation to the defense policy measure Congress hopes to enact before the end of the year on Thursday.
First off, why is no one asking why an energy bill should be added to defense legislation? The bill has nothing to do with US defense.
If you can believe it, Biden argued that the West Virginia Democrat’s measure was necessary to foster energy independence and reduce costs for American taxpayers.
“I support Senator Manchin’s permitting reform proposal as a way to cut Americans’ energy bills, promote U.S. energy security, and boost our ability to get energy projects built and connected to the grid,” Biden said. “Today, far too many projects face delays – keeping us from generating critical, cost-saving energy needed by families and businesses across America.”
Biden never mentioned that a lot of the bottlenecks are because of his own executive orders against the oil industry.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to take a vote this week on attaching Manchin’s measure to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A similar effort failed earlier this month in the House due to opposition from progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELProgressives claimed that Manchin’s bill, which would ease the permitting process for oil and gas extraction, was a handout to the fossil fuel industry.
“This would gut bedrock environmental regulations and fast-track fossil fuel projects,” said anti-Semite Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). “I refuse to allow our residents in frontline communities to continue to be sacrificed for the fossil fuel industry’s endless greed.”
Endless greed? Does she consider the American people’s need to heat their homes this winter as endless greed? What about driving to work and getting their kids to school on time? Does she consider that endless greed as well?
It’s amazing when Democrats make stupid statements like this because the oil companies are not getting richer with Joe Biden’s energy policies. There’s no greed involved. The energy companies produce a product that you pay for. The market is being manipulated because Joe Biden is a moron who is in way over his head and has signed executive orders that are crippling our energy industry. It’s all based on the radical woke neo Marxist Green New Deal that the Democrats could not get passed legislatively, so Biden has been shoving it down our throats via unconstitutional executive orders.
Republicans said the plan was little more than a political payback for Manchin, who voted in favor of Biden’s $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act. Senator Mitch McConnell (RINO-KY) has even accused Manchin of “traded his vote on a massive liberal boondoggle” in exchange for the permitting legislation.
Someone should pull McConnell’s head out of his wazoo on this one because anything that will help the American people get more energy in the wake of the disastrous policies of the Biden administration should be a no brainer.
I would not dismiss the idea that while Joe Biden is publicly supporting this, in the darkened rooms of the White House, between Matlock episodes, the president is sabotaging the effort by telling the radical progressives in Congress to “very loudly” come out against the permitting bill. That’s what makes the most sense. Biden has been against the energy industry since day one of his destructive administration. To come out now in favor of something that goes against everything he’s done so far against the industry does seem like it’s a political payback to Manchin for the horrific bill that he voted for to help Biden get it passed. This way, Biden can say that he did the political thing and tried to give a payback to Manchin while he secretly smiles to himself, not about the Matlock episode, but about getting one over on fellow Democrat Joe Manchin.
This means that the senator from West Virginia signed on to a bill that not only will not reduce inflation, but will increase it in the end, and all for nothing.
Manchin has dismissed such criticism, claiming that his measure will help working families save money on energy, an argument echoed by Biden.
“The Congress promised the American people a more reliable, affordable, sustainable, ‘made in the USA’ energy future when it passed the Inflation Reduction Act,” said the president. “Congress can help keep that promise and advance our energy future by passing Senator Manchin‘s permitting reform legislation.”
Schumer’s drive to include Manchin’s legislation in the NDAA comes after Republicans thwarted a move to include the provision in a government funding package in September. In that case, at least ten Republican senators were required to break a filibuster in the 50-50 Senate.
“This is a zombie that will not die. It’s going to be back again and again,” said Representative Jared Huffman, (D-CA). For clarity, he was not talking about Joe Biden.
