Teaching Grandpa to Suck Eggs

Senator Manchin of West Virginia announced that he wasn't on board with the Build Back Better bill in the middle of the talking head show time yesterday morning, which obviously made for lively panel discussions on This Week and Meet the Press.

On ABC's show, Yvette Simpson of Democracy for America tried punditsplaining to Manchin, insisting that the voters of West Virginia would really benefit from the BBB programs, so of course they would support it. Considering that Manchin was first elected to statewide office in West Virginia in 2001, when Ms. Simpson was still in undergrad, I'm going to bet that he has a better idea of what the voters there want than she does.

Are there voters in WV who wanted to see that bill pass? Oh, I don't doubt it at all. But...

Why, I'll bet almost half of West Virginians support Build Back Better.
That's what Joe Manchin bets, too. https://t.co/nW2UZiRqc4

— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) December 20, 2021