The explosion Barack Obama may have just heard was the broadside opened up in one statement by West Virginia's governor, Joe Manchin.
“This country wasn’t built on handouts. We didn’t become leader of the free world by waiting on someone to give us a handout.”
That is a powerful statement by the Democratic governor of West Virginia about the bailout package that, as of this writing, Obama has continually tried to ram through the Senate using threats and nightmare scenarios. It ballooned to almost one trillion dollars, helping the Republican Party in their efforts to educate the public on what that will do to our economic future. Either Governor Manchin put his finger to the wind or he is giving vent to his free market beliefs, but this looks like an extremely critical statement.
How much will this register? Probably not much. If during the Bush years, a Republican governor from a small state criticized a key part of presidential policy, we would have heard about it for days. I doubt the media will give this a peep of coverage. However, it gives us some indication of Manchin's core beliefs. He did not have to criticize the president and it probably gained him very little to do so.
Good gosh, if you removed the name, I'd swear that the guy who said that was named "Ronald Reagan!"
This shows how deeply troubling this bailout package has become even to thoughtful Democrats.
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