A big thanks to Putin

[Mr.Bill]

for making the #1 news story for the foreseeable future something that Joe Manchin has no power over.

[Omnipresent]

1. I didn't know Joe Manchin wanted to be in the spotlight anymore...

For standing in the way, and derailing the Democratic Party’s agenda.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Joe Manchin will always want to be in the spotlight.

He's a small man* from a tiny state, and for one moment everyone hung on his every word. Now the lights are off and no reporter chasing him down the Capitol halls. He has experienced a surge of adrenalin and he'll want to experience again.

* People Will Talk (1951)

Shunderson: Professor Elwell, you're a little man. It's not that you're short. You're...little, in the mind and in the heart. Tonight, you tried to make a man little whose boots you couldn't touch if you stood on tiptoe on top of the highest mountain in the world. And as it turned out...you're even littler than you were before.

BTW, had he supported the voting rights bills he would have been seen as a hero. Now his legacy will be as one of the miscreants who are trying to destroy democracy.