If You Think Progressives Won't Compromise w/ Centrists, You Have It Backwards. Liberals are begging

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35. A simple google search that you won't include?

How strange.

Manchin was urging a pause in negotiating for reconciliation in AUGUST.

Duh. Of course he was. From the moment moderates in the House got Pelosi to commit to a date certain for a vote on the infrastructure bill, his obvious course was to stall Senate negotiations past that point. It was discussed here at great length at the time.

But that isn't the same thing as not telling progressives what he objected to in the bill. He's been in the press ("simple google search&quot for months that the price tag was way too high for him and that he wouldn't support it. He's been saying for several weeks (likely months) that he has problems with the climate sections of the bill and won't support them.

There has been no movement on any of that. Progressives have been just as clear that they won't support his bill until he accepts the full $3.5T. And so here we are. Now the party leadership is saying that a vote is going to be held and they don't want to hold it unless they can close a deal in a shockingly short period of time. Suddenly they say that they want to negotiate.