Schmuck Of The Day

Repeat Perpetual Offender Edition

July 31, 2022

As if standing in the way of his party’s extremely popular and desperately needed platform to support average Americans, fight the exploding climate crisis (which he has a blood-stained hand in exacerbating), stand up for women’s reproductive rights and secure voting rights was not bad enough, Sen. Joe Mansion, who is very rich thanks to his inherited, and continuing dirty coal money, told colleagues how he really feels about his beloved constituents.

Last December Manchin told colleagues he believed parents would use child tax credits to buy drugs and people would abuse paid leave to go hunting. That would still put them well ahead of Mansion when gauging their impact on society. We haven’t heard such tone-deaf bullshit since Mitt Romney. It’s not that there aren’t examples of people misusing safety-net funds for non-essential purposes, but when was the last time you heard some obscenely rich douchebag like Mansion or Romney decrying the billions of taxpayer dollars doled out to uber-profitable, deceptive, murderers like Exxon and their ilk?

You just can’t beat these arrogant, out-of-touch, self-serving, blood-money-made assholes. Seriously, you can’t beat them. Unless of course you yourself are rich enough to beat the assault and battery rap.

UPDATE:
Defying all odds, Mansion was somehow persuaded by Chuck Schumer to sign on to what’s left of Joe Biden’s signature legislative agenda. Such as it was. Mansion spent months wrestling, wheedling, whining and whittling down Biden’s plan, formerly known as Build Back Better.

Apparently, in order to get Old King Coal to go along with wasting a bunch of money to keep the Earth habitable for humans (I hear some of Mansion’s best friends are human, very rich, but supposedly human) Democrats had to agree to include money to help speed up the environment’s demise by making it easier to mine, drill, frack and otherwise stay as busy as possible defiling as much of the Earth as he and his buddies can while we try to save it. Who was it who said, “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”? I think it was that Einstein guy, but what the hell did he know.

Oh, and the package is now known as the Inflation Reduction Act. Excellent marketing move.

So, for the moment at least Democrats have enough votes to move forward. Except for one thing. They don't. There remains one unpredictable, unreliable, irresponsible head case that goes by the name Kyrsten Sinema. She is not commenting. And Mansion could change his mind at any minute. It’s entirely possible he only relented knowing that Sinema would not, thereby taking the heat off of himself. Who the fuck knows?

Bobby Darin – Call Me Irresponsible

Special Schmuck-Of-The-Day shout out to another repeat offender – the entire Ratpublican caucus. They just voted against the PACT Act to help veterans suffering from health problems related to toxic burn pits – something they voted for just a month ago with an 84-14 margin. 

Jon Stewart v. Rafael "Ted" Cruz

Also, Susan Collins warned that same-sex-marriage talks are in jeopardy due to a Ratpublican hissy fit over Democrats winning on addressing the climate crisis and a tiny tax increase on corporations. Sore losers, sore winners. A canker sore on the body politic. And the nation.

So many schmucks, so few days.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day. Fuck Joe Manchin, either way.

UPDATE #2 (3:00 PM):

When asked by fellow idiot Chuck Todd, “Do you want the Democrats to keep control?” Manchin dodged the question and started babbling about politics Joe Manchin style. When asked if he would support Joe Biden in 2024, Joe Blow again slipped into a response coma. Democrats really need to pick up two more senate seats in order to render Manchin and Sinema moot.