JOE MANCHIN DISCOVERS JOE BIDEN IS A DEMOCRAT, PROCEEDS TO WHINE INCESSANTLY:

On Friday, with the mid-term election just days away, Joe Biden decided it’d be a great idea to rant about closing down coal plants. As RedState reported, the president proclaimed that “we’re going to be shutting down these plants all across America” in favor of inefficient, unsustainable wind and solar projects.

Naturally, his statement drew a lot of perplexed looks. Why would Biden, even if he believes it, be so stupid as to shout from the rooftops about crushing jobs right before voters in key battleground states head to the polls?

Sen. Joe Manchin, whose state relies heavily on the coal industry, was none too pleased. He ripped Biden in a statement Saturday morning, calling the president’s comments “outrageous and divorced from reality.”

As I read Manchin’s statement, I can’t find anything wrong in it. The senator is correct that Biden’s positions change “depending on the audience and the politics of the day.” He’s also right that the White House’s anti-energy policies will only bring about more “pain” for Americans.

But sometimes you can be right and still be worthy of mockery, and this is one of those times. Joe Manchin is not new to Washington, DC. He’s personally known and served with Joe Biden for decades. Given that, absolutely nothing Biden said in his remarks should come as a shock. In fact, the president has advertised his desire to shut down coal plants for years.

Flashback to 2019: Joe Biden to Coal Miners: Learn to Code!

Indeed it was. In March of 2016, Harold Stassen, Hillary Clinton bragged if elected, ‘We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.’

Then there was Joe’s old boss telling the San Francisco Chronicle in 2008: “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”

Is Manchin sure he’s in the right party?