(#4705) Build Back Better and we Americans took a knife to the back yesterday from brutus manchin

      I Suppose it was only fitting that brutus manchin went to fox not news yesterday morning and stabbed President Joe Biden and the vast majority of Americans in the back yesterday. Because as I have observed over the many months of watching the senate floor on Cspan-2, brutus manchin spends more time cajoling and glad handing his republican senate colleagues than he does with his own democratic party members. I know that philosophically brutus is aligned with the republican concept of pull yourself up by your own bootstraps even though most people cannot do that because of inherent deficiencies in our laws. But it is no surprise to me, just a huge letdown that sucked the joy right out of me for several hours.
     I had thought that brutus would be more true to his word and compromise in good faith even though he was opposed to the deal. Yet he didn't. Instead he delayed the Build Back Better agenda until he got his hard infrastructure bill passed and then he waffled for awhile and then yesterday morning stated he could not vote for the bill. It was typical brutus manchin behavior, waffle for a time then say no. But what was different this time and has me renaming him brutus is his actions just before his fox not news give away was his saying he called the president and dem leader Schumer to tell them of his decision to say no on Build Back Better.
     Well he didn't do that and instead had his staffers do it. That lie was enough for me to call him out as a traitor to the process but it isn't all. He acted like he was trying to get to a yes when in reality he was just looking for the right time to say no. He did put the knife to all of us by doing that and his lack of ethics and morality is now exposed. Little good that does any of us but it does speak to his very low character. It may be that the sun will come out tomorrow and a new beginning on something takes the place of this current slap down. But the fact that brutus manchin will never be regarded as a serious statesman has been confirmed by none other than himself.