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Who in the world knows what the source of his hold over them is, but they have got to be dealt with by the Democratic party with firmness.
They cannot face their paymasters–who are also McConnell’s–without getting the Exon-dictated infrastructure bill passed, so they need the reconciliation bill as much as it does them.

OF COURSE McConnell told Manchin and Sinema about his debt ceiling offer before making it to Democratic leadership.
Of COURSE Manchin then announced that he is forever opposed to a filibuster carve-out.
OF COURSE Sinema won’t return Biden’s calls.

Two crucial axes for me: I describe in the West View News.

Why doesn’t he examine the way the last forty years of catering to the wealthy have made economic advancement all but impossible for most Americans?

Manchin’s right-wing cant feeds into the Republican’s indoctrination of America: servicing the wealthy is exemplary; supporting the rest of America is welfare.

as a defeat for Biden’s agenda?

He would have told spoilers Manchin and Sinema that their political careers were over unless they got with the program, they were going to become pariahs and he was cutting them loose. And since they weren’t crazy enough for Trump’s GOP, they had nowhere else to go.

have defiled this institution, and as their shoddy, louche and ideologically-drive rulings garner scrutiny and exposure, they are, true to right-wing form, playing the victim card.

The latest to do so is Injustice Alito.

By the way, Your Honor, are we ever going to see those memos you suppressed back in ’06?

Progressives who will stand their ground.

He wants a mingy, crippled Build Back Better, and he doesn’t believe that he and his fellow wealthy Americans should pay their fare share of taxes, and, come to think of it, once the Exon-dictated “bipartisan” bill passes he really couldn’t give a shit.

Josh Marshall asks, “Is the reward for her betrayal having the party she is betraying pass her infrastructure bill? That’s too crazy to allow to happen.”

So Sinema and Manchin are turncoat Democrats, corporate whores who have actively conspired with opposition leader McConnell to destroy the reconciliation bill and Biden’s agenda.

And they are the ones the Democratic “leadership” is allowing to call the shots.

Unbelievable.