Monday morning quarterbacking was in full swing at the start of this week following Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) televised delivery of a presumed fatal blow to President Biden’s signature Build Back Better Act, the massive social spending bill that passed the US House of Representatives in November and was pending in the US Senate. Manchin clearly stated, “This is a no,” on a Fox News program, no less – just in case his Democrat colleagues needed a further poke in the eye.
Because of the 50/50 partisan split in the Senate, it was always a given that every single Democrat Senator must …