re: #74 No Malarkey!

People on Twitter *really* do not understand how much of politics is kabuki. Manchin needs Biden to engage in at least some bipartisan talks so that when he agrees to vote to push legislation through, he can do it more-in-sorrow-then-in-anger.

I’m guessing Manchin’s comments in November about wanting to keep the filibuster had at least something to do with the Georgia Senate races: it defused the argument that you needed a GOP Senate for “balance” because who knows what that crazy-ass hippie Joe Biden was going to do otherwise. Mission accomplished, and now he needs a climbdown.

He’s not exactly my favorite senator, but he’s been solid when the chips are down and I’m sure he knows that stalling everything that comes through the Senate would fuck WV hard.