So let's update this thread. First off, we have this:
Democrats need Manchin's vote in the 50-50 Senate, plus a tie-breaker from Vice President Kamala Harris.
www.cnbc.com
Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat, said Sunday he won’t support the Biden administration’s “Build Back Better” plan.
Manchin’s decision will likely kill the $1.75 trillion social spending and climate policy bill as it is now. Democrats need Manchin’s vote in the 50-50 Senate, plus a tie-breaker from Vice President Kamala Harris.
“If I can’t go home and explain it to the people West Virginia, I can’t vote for it. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there,” Manchin said on “Fox News Sunday,” saying he was concerned with adding to the national debt.
Yeah. Sure. Right. He sure as hell wasn't concerned with the debt one damn bit when he gave the rich a 2 trillion dollar tax cut that is the reason we've had to raise the debt ceiling twice already.
But then there's this - and I had never heard this before:
The situation began in 2007, when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette made a routine call to verify Mylan CEO Heather Bresch's credentials.
www.businessinsider.com
As it turns out, this isn't CEO Heather Bresch's first brush with controversy. In 2008, West Virginia University stripped her of an MBA that she claimed she earned.
The situation began when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette made a routine call to verify Bresch's credentials as the new head of Mylan. Accusations of political cronyism and the resignation of three WVU faculty members followed.
In 2007, the press release announcing
Bresch's ascension to CEO noted that she "earned an MBA and an undergraduate degree in international studies and political science from West Virginia University."
By December, however, the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that West Virginia University awarded Bresch the MBA after only rewriting documents that originally showed she completed approximately half the credits necessary for the degree.
Absolutely corrupt to the core.