[TexasGurl24]

Uh, you understand that the only way Manchin can kill the bill, is if all 50 GOP Senators were united against it.

Why doesn’t anyone want to give the GOP credit for standing united against BBB from the outset?

Manchin is only in the position of kingmaker, because all 50 members of the GOP are with him.

Don’t do AOC math.

[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.

[AFPhys]

Agreed. McConnell, for all his warts, has been a stalwart in maintaining all 50 GOP Senators united in opposition. He gave in to the Dems in a few places, but that made it much more difficult for Manchin, Sinema, and a few other Dems to give in to the BBB garbage.