[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Didn't see that you already had said this about the 50 GOP Senators. I basically repeated the exact same reasoning about 10 posts down.

I'm going to add that the only reason McConnell was able to hold 50 Republicans plus Manchin on the BBB vote is that he gave them political cover by agreeing to the smaller stimulus bill already passed.

I didn't like that bill, and I know that a lot of other conservatives didn't either. But if McConnell hadn't given support to that first infrastructure bill, the ribosomes Manchin would have defected on a much larger one because they couldn't afford politically to do nothing.

This razor thin defeat of BBB shows that McConnell's political calculus was correct all along.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Wow- “ribosomes” was supposed to be “RINO’s and Manchin”. Auto-correct flat-out murdered that.

[TexasGurl24]

Don’t expect the trailer park crowd to ever recognize that, while not perfect, McConnell has played the political game very well.

He and Graham are good friends with Manchin, and they may have pulled him over on this one.

[MinorityRepublican]

This razor thin defeat of BBB shows that McConnell's political calculus was correct all along.

McConnell may be a SOB but his strategy was correct. The infrastructure bill is laden with pork but we can live with that. BBB bill will fundamentally change this nation and McConnell needed Manchin's help to torpedo it and he wanted the infrastructure bill so McConnell gave it to him. Now it's full speed to 2022. The Democrats may not have a chance to pass the BBB bill for another decade at least.