BIL was 69-30.
IRA I'll give manchin credit for
CHIPS was 64-33
PACT was 84-15.
How many things did manchin torpedo? There was a few months when fucking nothing happened and everyone on this forum was screaming about manchin and sinema, now he's the Democrat sleeper agent? Please.
I'm not here to extol the virtues of Joe Manchin, but your takes are just as ridiculous. He cockblocked the IRA all of 2021 and into 2022,
before he voted for it! The "Green New Deal" was never going to pass in a 50/50 Senate, so we take the wins that we can get. The horse-trading and sausage-making is probably pretty disgusting from our perspective, but that's unfortunately how representative government works. Manchin was elected Senator of WV, not of CA or NY.
I'd rather scream at the mofo for a year if he ultimately comes around and plays team ball, then have to deal with a RWNJ like Jim Justice. But you do you, whatever helps you sleep at night.
If it isn't obvious enough, the real problem we have to face are the (R) Senators and Reps that will
never vote for legislation that we
really want. Manchin is obviously an imperfect DINO, but he's someone that Dems could actually work with from time to time. I can live with that uncertainty and "Pyrrhic victories."
This is just a stone's throw away from the nonsense "I can't vote for Biden again because of his Pro-Israel policy, so who cares if Trump wins."
"Perfect is the enemy of the good."