First you see it, then you don’t.
We can always expect a disappearing act when it comes to Sen. Joe Manchin, the conservative Democrat of West Virginia.
He was the lone Democrat on Wednesday to vote against a bill that would have guaranteed federal abortion rights. It was the second time in three months he’s done so.
Manchin’s support for civil rights is like a mirage that forms the moment he talks about it, only to disappear when he actually has to prove it.
Speaking to the news media ahead of his “no” vote, Manchin claimed he’d support a bill that would “codify Roe v. Wade,” the federal abortion rights ruling, which is precisely what the Women’s Health Protection Act would do. But Manchin won’t back that bill because, he claimed, it would “expand” abortion rights.
There’s a lesson here: It’s that Manchin’s support for civil rights is like a mirage that forms the moment he talks about it, only to disappear when he actually has to prove it.








