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Lawrence L.'s avatar

Manchin had some pretty blatantly obvious reasons for digging in his heels that have little to do with McConnell's 4-dimensional chess machinations:

https://twitter.com/robertblizzard/status/1472576579020767233

Mitch hasn't exactly established himself as a fighter on behalf of the middle class American in this congress. Why hasn't Turtle slowed down the Senate to a crawl like Schumer did to Trump? The GOP Senate has been playing the obsolete collegiality rubberstamp nominee game after four years of the Dems torching every one of Trump's. Only the most wildly insanely radical nominees have been stopped--and only after it was already clear that Biden had screwed his own pooch. Biden has the worst polling numbers in history and we're supposed to praise McConnell for playing the long game? The GOP leadership has given Zhou its only lifelines.

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Thomas J's avatar

But even the skinny infrastructure is sparse on actual infrastructure. Now if increase to debt ceiling can be used next year as a down payment on the border wall…

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