Balloon Juice | Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Carrying the The Idiot Ball
Manchin promised to back his ‘Republican friends.’ Instead, he betrayed them. On Feb. 2, after 10 Senate Republicans went to the White House and offered President Biden a path to a bipartisan filibuster-proof covid relief bill, Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) publicly backed their effort. Speaking to Fox News’s Bret Baier, Manchin declared: “I have made it very clear . . . we’re going to make this work in a bipartisan way. My friends on the other side are going to have input. And we’re going to do something that we agree on. I’m not just going to do it just down the lines of, jus...
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