“Key swing vote Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia offered a grim pronouncement on the status of President Joe Biden’s remaining domestic agenda, saying on Tuesday that the Build Back Better act is ‘dead.’”

CNN

Joe Manchin, eschewing the nuance and diplomacy of a seasoned politician, declared Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation dead, and indeed even Jesus Christ himself can’t resurrect the huge bill.

Joe Biden simply doesn’t have FDR’s gravitas to ram through his New Deal type legislation through Congress, nor does he possess LBJ’s intimidation factor to cajole Democrats to pass his signature bill.

Joe Biden and progressive Democrats risked everything in the belief that at the end they could persuade Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema to vote in favor of Build Back Better and the voting rights bills.

Manchin and Sinema have proven time after time again, that they will stand their ground. Biden should have understood that these two implacable moderate senators are an integral part of the Democratic Party, and he shouldn’t have promised his base more than he could deliver.

The end result is that both progressive and moderate Democrats are disillusioned and dismayed at Biden’s ineptitude.

Biden’s failure to move his domestic agenda will result in a shellacking of Biblical proportions in the mid term election.