"If I'm reading this right, the only thing Manchin has in return for giving the Dems everything is ... NOTHING? Just empty words? Sounds like Rope-A-Dope to me. What say you? Just how dumb IS Manchin?"
Yeah, one would presume that Manchin, being a Democrat himself, would know that he is making bargains with duplicitous snakes in the grass, BUT ... apparently, naivete springs eternal.