{"id":200588,"date":"2021-02-24T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/24\/manchin-to-support-haaland-for-secretary-of-the-interior\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:05:00","slug":"manchin-to-support-haaland-for-secretary-of-the-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/24\/manchin-to-support-haaland-for-secretary-of-the-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin to Support Haaland for Secretary of the Interior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  After publicly playing Hamlet for a few days, Joe Manchin (DINO-WV) has   announced that   <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/540356-manchin-to-vote-to-support-haalands-confirmation\">he will support the nomination of Deb Halland as Secretary of the     Interior<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>  Why her, she participated in protests against the Keystone XL pipeline, which   as a <b>VERY<\/b> pro fossil fuel Senator from a coal state he should find even   more unsettling than a few mean Tweets about Republicans made by Neera Tanden. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The idea that only CEO contributes to a company&#8217;s growth and not all employees is really pernicious <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2d9xgU0IHJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/2d9xgU0IHJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neeratanden\/status\/769525234475106304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Pretty mild, actually<br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<p>  It turns out that Manchin is probably lying about his reason to oppose Tanden. <\/p>\n<p>  It seems that his daughter, Heather Bresch, academic fabulist and CEO of Mylan   Pharmaceuticals, was criticized by Tanden for raising her own pay while   gouging consumers for the Epipen\u00ae anaphylaxis treatment<\/p>\n<p>This would not be the first time that Manchin has used his official position to benefit his daughter.  His finger prints are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Virginia_University_M.B.A._controversy\">all over an effort to get Bresch an MBA degree that she did not earn<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So Joe Manchin&#8217;s actions here are even more stupid, sordid, and corrupt than I had previously imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Still no sympathy for Ms. Tanden though.&nbsp; She&#8217;s a hack and a psychopath, and she shut down a publication in response to unionization, so am firmly of the belief that she should not be kitchen staff supervisor<sup>*<\/sup> at the White House, much less director of the OMB.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">It&#8217;s a reference to the comic book <i>Cerebus the Aardvark<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After publicly playing Hamlet for a few days, Joe Manchin (DINO-WV) has announced that he will support the nomination of Deb Halland as Secretary of the Interior. Why her, she participated in protests against the Keystone XL pipeline, which as a VERY pro fossil fuel Senator from a coal state he should find even more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,998,970,1278,1051,1183,1018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","category-congress","category-corruption","category-fraud","category-hypocrisy","category-nepotism","category-pharma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}