In an example of what effectively amounts to bribery unusual even by Washington standards, President Joe Biden has just appointed Gayle Conelly Manchin to be federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, the entity responsible for economic development and investment in its 13-state catchment area.
Her salary would be $163,000 a year, only slightly less than the $174,000 her husband, Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, earns as a member of the upper chamber.
Her nomination is subject to Senate confirmation, but as a matter of senatorial courtesy — and because of the rubber-stamp Democratic Senate majority — her approval is likely.
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Manchin, of course, has emerged as the key player in Senate deliberations over whether to pass the aggressive package of radical legislation Biden has laid before the Congress.
Whether Biden and Pelosi’s bill to impose voting regulations on states that enable massive fraud or his bill to
