that gasp tells you how emotionally invested the media is in this decision. they were never debating the merits or the content of the bill. they just wanted a victory at any cost, never mind what it would do to inflation and everybody knew it would be a disaster and they didn't care about what was buried in the bill. it was just a naked tell when you heard that. whose side they were on. and then you sit there and you go okay, who's fault is this? because we just saw that the squad was just about on every single show. so it wasn't like people were keeping them quiet, they had every moment and opportunity to explain why this bill should be the best thing since sliced bread, so you can't blame a joe manchin, you have to blame the democrats like joe biden who did not have the guts to stand up to the militant progressive wing of their party who to dough mike turned an infrastructure bill into a candyland of marxist dreams and junk science and junk economic spirit lastly, if you t