Manchin shows Biden's dangerous

On Friday, before Manchin finally said no to Biden's $5 trillion (CBO estimate) boondoggle and kickback scheme, the Wall Street Journal said in an editorial, "For inexplicable reasons, Joe Biden misread his narrow electoral victory, and the narrow Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill, as a mandate for 'transformational' change."

WSJ has it backward. Voters and pundits misread Biden. They thought they were getting a harmless and befuddled old man who would keep the seat warm while the two parties sorted things out Après Trump.

Basement Biden has played that role well. He hints at handlers running the show and the gullible fall for it. He is no moderate. He is no fool. He knows how to stage and frame his presidency.

Being seen as a puppet gives him a great advantage because he is never held accountable. Someone else is pulling the strings. In fact, being manipulated by unseen hands makes him the victim. Poor Joe.

On Hoppy Kercheval's radio show this morning, Manchin explained to West Virginians his veto of the Democrat spending plan. He said he was led on and on for months by the White House.

Not Biden, but the White House, as if Manchin were dealing with an inanimate object.

Manchin said, "This is not the president -- this is staff.. They drove some things, and they put some things out that were absolutely inexcusable. They know what it is, and that's it". I just got to the wit's end of what happened."

Now Manchin is a sharp guy, but come on. Biden is the president, and he calls the shots. He -- not his staff -- gave Kamala the cold shoulder at Bob Dole's funeral. He -- not the generals -- surrendered Afghanistan. He -- not liberals in Congress -- demanded socialism and green energy nonsense stay in the BBB bill.

Biden is no centrist, but he plays one on TV. How easy it is for Biden to tell Manchin one thing and have his staff do something else. 

Look at the amateurs he hired for his staff. Do you think for a moment that Blinken calls the shots as secretary of state? Biden was the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a dozen years. Few things are as large as a senator's ego and this man ranks 18th in all-time service in the Senate at 36 years, 13 days. If you count his 8 years when as vice president he was president of the Senate, Biden ranks 6th in all-time seniority.

When Manchin told him no, Biden flipped out. How dare some punk with less than 12 years seniority rebuke him?

Biden dispatch Psaki and the Squad to attack Manchin.

Liberal blogger Glenn Greenwald tweeted, "There is no political faction in any country I've covered as a journalist that more worships their political leaders than Dems in the US. They revere them like teens revere pop idols. And they are thus never blamed, can't fail, can only be failed, etc.

"Absolutely everything Democrats are doing with the BBB bill -- the unfulfilled promises, blame-shifting, excuse-making, the general loser ethos -- is what they have been doing without pause at least since I began writing about politics 16 years ago. Not one thing has changed."

And the biggest fawners are the press.

Voters did not realize that Biden's politics are to the left of Obama, not right.

Now they know.

The editors of WSJ should have used their opinion pages to push Trump because their criticism of Biden rings so hollow now.