December 15, 2021
Will Joe Manchin wake up with a horse’s head in his bed?
By Mark C. Ross
Thanks to The Godfather, this image is implanted in our collective consciousness. Obviously, Manchin is holding some serious cards regarding the passage of the “Build Back Better” raid on the treasury that Democrats in Congress are drooling over. Will enough pressure be put on Manchin to go against his earlier negative comments on the measure? Suffice to say that the senator understands arithmetic and already knows that, in last year’s election, Donald Trump beat Biden in West Virginia by better than two to one.
Beyond basic political calculations, the rising specter of inflation is asserting itself as a problem to be dealt with. The Democrats reflexively pooh-pooh this issue as a blip, a transitory phenomenon, that only Republicans are interested in making an issue. The American public, however, has current and previous experience with inflation, and they don’t like it.
What is thus far escaping consideration is that, compared to actual problems requiring action by the public sector, the Build Back Better proposal is designed to deal with imaginary problems. Imaginary problems don’t really grab the public’s attention as do real emergencies.
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