line. a lot of mistrust within factions of the party, seung min is right. keep in mind the binding agent in the end that the white house is counting on and democratic leaders are counting on is a very polarized political system with two parties. all these democrats, people negotiating, are part of the same party. if they have a shared interest, a common interest in terms of their values, things that they re for, in terms of their electoral fortunes, that is what the argument that ultimately will rule the day or not rule the day. that is, are we all in this together? are we all going to go down in the 2022 elections? are we going to get something done we all believe in? if you re a member of that team at the end of the day they re going to count on you to be with them. what we don t know yet is to what degree manchin and sinema consider themselves part of that team. joe manchin is from a state that trump won, kirsten sinema, does
particularly sinema and to a lesser degree manchin who are being inflexible, dogmatic, and even nihilistic in their approach to this. i have two things. i think we might be saying a similar thing, because the comparison i m making is proceedural, the willingness to walk. and we sometimes get news updates directly in our ear, and i just got one here, speaker pelosi is reiterating saying they re on track to hold the vote. so that is quite relevant to what we re talking about. but again, i go back to you, mr. crowley, does that mean that s real, or is it one of the things