When moderates become obstructionists.
Specifically Joe "Benedict" Manchin and Kyrsten "Benedict" Sinema.
While these two centrists claim they're in favor of bipartisanship that'll never come if the Repubs have their way they're helping those same Repubs torpedo Biden's agenda and his presidency. While Benedict Sinema is channeling her inner Republican by catering to Arizona big business interests Benedict Manchin is afraid that if he doesn't act Republican enough the voters will fire him and get a real republican come 2022. Manchin won WV in 2012 with 61% of the vote and reelected in 2018 with just under 50% of the vote. I can see why he's worried about his future. Sinema held a fund-raiser with business lobbying groups that oppose tax hikes in the Democrats’ main spending bill so we see where allegiances lie and it isn't with the Democratic voters of AZ.
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The first casualty of war is the truth.
[ Greek dramatist Aeschylus ]
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