Every last DU'er should wake up in the morning and thank Heaven for Joe Manchin...

[Tom Rinaldo]

60. As soon as Lisa Murkowsky starts voting for Chuck Schumer for Senate Majority Leader...

...we won't need Joe Manchin. Or until we manage to add to our majority in the Senate Democratic Caucus, hopefully in 2022. Above someone noted that it can be said that we need the vote of every Democrat in the Senate just as much as we need the vote of Joe Manchin. True, but the difference is that every other member of our Caucus comes from a State where it is not inconceivable to believe that they could be replaced by a different Democrat from that State. It is not conceivable at this time to believe that any other Democrat could keep that West Virginia Senate seat out of Republican hands. For that reason he is a gift to our side, flawed as he most certainly is. It's kind of like us getting a gift Democratic Senate Seat from Alabama for two years with Doug Jones when he squeaked in while running against a gonzo pedophile, Two years later and he was swept away and that seat is again solid red.