Manchin is what Democrats use to be, fiscally conservative, socially compassionate. If a few more Democrats in congress acted, voted like him, this country would be much better off.
Manchin is a saboteur plant that Biden has been aware of for years but doesn't care to counter because he's happy keeping the status quo:
Manchin represents West Virginia, a coal mining state with conservative values, and his actions are meant to keep himself in a position to be re-elected.
you should see how the BBB he killed polls among his constituents. https://www.filesforprogress.org/memos/bbb-wv.pdf
of course it's another "woe is me " pussy: The comments were published in a story Tuesday about the political actions of the wealthiest Americans in response to a shift in tone of populist Democrats that in some ways attacked the rich. “I hope it’s not working,” Langone, a major GOP donor, told POLITICO of the populist appeals. “Because if you go back to 1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany. You don’t survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on envy or jealousy.”
Senator Joe Manchin might table the reconciliation bill till next year. That would be a genius move. House Democrats running for re-election now have to choose if they want to support the extreme liberal agenda of Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and risk being voted out of office. They will all be busy campaigning too next year. Hopefully, that reconciliation bill dies and gets buried for good. Who cares about the extreme liberal Democrats and even our ET trolls? They can all gnash their teeth and pound sand.
what he was really saying is that now democrats are fiscally spending and socially compassionate, which means conservatives are fiscally spending and socially uncompassionate (which is what he supports).