Rolling Stone: Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew

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35. A friend of mine is a lobbyist in DC.

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He's on a first-name basis with many politicians on the Hill and has been for many years. He's told me about a few certainties in the Upper Chamber:

1. Almost everyone in the Senate, on both sides of the aisle, loves and respects Joe Biden. But politics is politics, and they act otherwise and say what they think they have to for the cameras.

2. Mitch McConnell is smart (although Schumer is smarter), but he is a soulless ghoul who is drunk on power for power's sake and the attention that comes with it. He has destroyed the Senate, maybe forever.

3. Rand Paul is probably the biggest asshole in the Senate, which is really saying something.

4. Marco Rubio is probably the second biggest idiot in the Senate, which is really saying something. Tommy Tuberville is the dumbest and it's not even close.

5. Yes, it's an open secret about Lindsay Graham.

6. Most Senate Republicans hate Trump, think he is a dangerous fool and bad for the GOP and the country, but they are terrified of his power so they go along with him and will until they don't have to anymore.

7. Joe Manchin is a corrupt slave to Big Coal, and he not a good person--he is a greedy, self-obsessed jerk (not unusual for a politician, of course). But some of the things that he has done behind the scenes to support Democratic initiatives would surprise you (he was a leader in saving Obamacare in 2016-17, even rallying a despondent Chuck Schumer) and he is a reliable vote for all Dem nominated judges.

8. Jeff Sessions was, and is, openly racist. Openly. Like, it even made his GOP colleagues uncomfortable to be around him.