It’s like a bad re-run of “Murder She Wrote”: Angela Lansbury checks into some New England cottage. Somebody gets killed, because somebody gets killed everywhere she goes. Angela Lansbury solves the murder, because she always solves the murder. The episode ends with Angela Lansbury having a glass of wine with cottage owner and a bunch of relieved locals. End.
It’s the same episode every week, just with different settings and characters.
The same dynamic has always been at play throughout Joe Manchin’s career. The radical elements of his party propose some incredibly damaging legislation. Manchin checks in on the floor of the Senate to claim he won’t support it. The Democrat majority leader comes up one vote short. Rumors fly that the majority leader is furious and Manchin is considering switching parties. Negotiations ensue. Mainchin folds in the end. Manchin holds a press conference with the majority leader to announce the betryal. Dems all over Washington DC break out the bubbly and toast not Manchin, but the majority leader for rolling Manchin yet again.
It’s the same game every session of congress, just with different legislation and occasionally a new majority leader.
Ok, so go ahead and taunt me. I let Joe Manchin fool me this time, even though I knew as well as anyone about his sordid and consistent track record of always, without exception, giving into pressure from first Harry Reid and more recently Chuck Schumer anytime he became the holdup to the radical Dems getting their damaging agenda done.
I freely admit that I had thought this time might be the exception, given that Manchin had apparently acquired a new-found spine in the person of Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. Over the last year, I repeatedly wrote - and even almost believed - that this time might finally prove to be the exception to Manchin’s life-long pattern of political cowardice because he had Sinema standing firmly with him in the face of the nationally ruinous “Build Back Better” bill designed to impose the agenda of the WEF and its “Great Reset” on our nation.