Do you think Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are committed to passing Joe Biden's agenda?

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33. I look at their ages for clues

Manchin is 74, Sinema is 45.

Manchin gets a comfortable retirement whether he runs for another term or not. He's set for life. He can compromise or not, go along or not, and he'll be fine. I think he's in it for the ego at this point. I think he'll ultimately go along, after "making his point" along with the appropriate headlines to paste on his wall.

Sinema is another species. She is only 45, and is no idiot. Maybe not the greatest strategist in the world, but I've heard her speak, and she is no fool along the lines of Sarah Palin. Maybe she has some hotshot private sector post waiting for her, but maybe she just wants to make some kind of big splash that will somehow prove she was "right all along," and make a great comeback in the AZ Democratic party. If she makes enough of Biden's agenda ultimately happen, she will be able to say, "I kept a lid on the excesses, and made everything happen anyway," and she'll give any challenger a hard time proving her wrong.

They may say the same things for now, but it seems to me that they are saying them with very different motivations.