Myopic to the point of blindness and premature of course...and with large dollops of cynicism and unsupported character assassination to boot, or for this author just another Wednesday. Senator Manchin probably isn't running again for the senate, and in his seventies will most likely retire at the end of his term. He is most likely acting out of conviction and conscience. Apparently, anyone who acts in a way that "infuriates" the author must by default be acting out of corrupt motives, which brings to mind the topic of projection.

So often the accuser is projecting their own consciousness on the accused; the crook calls others crooks, the cheat calls others cheats. trump was exhibit A in this phenomenon, his intent to cheat in the election made so much more clear by his incessant accusations that the other side was cheating...

Utter silliness to claim that McConnell and the GOPs are "shredding the infrastructure bill". They were never going to vote for it, which the president has always known though it seems hard for others to grasp. Biden will in the end pass what he can through reconciliation, but first he has to make it clear to the 8 or so DEMOCRATIC senators, whose votes he needs that he gave bipartisanship the old college try. Once again, politics 101, which like civics and cursive apparently is no longer taught in schools.