Yeah, I get it, gets my dander up as well. Would prefer a unified front, but we are talking about someone who has managed to hang on in a liberal desert and so I would prefer to wait until the vote to call him an asshole if he disappoints us.
Biden doesn’t seem to be getting in too much of a lather about it, and they have known each other a long, long time. Haven’t ever heard that there’s any animosity… And I am sure Biden knows exactly what Manchin needs and will find a way to make it work.
In other words, I guess I am seeing this all a bit along the lines of good cop/bad cop and Manchin’s the bad cop here on this.