If the Democratic Party was a car...

[Bucky]

If the Democratic Party was a car, Joe Manchin would be the taped-on plastic bag in the passenger window

[True Dough]

1. And it's going to take an awful long time

to save the money to fix that passenger window at $7.25/hr.

[Jerry2144]

2. No. He would be

No. He would be the license plate frame. It’s the only relic from the past still in use on current modern cars. You can take a plate from 100 years ago and install it in a modern car’s license plate frame and it will still fit. Manchin is just like that, a relic from our party’s past

[Meadowoak]

3. Machine would be a tail fin.

[lagomorph777]

4. With a busted tail light lens.

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. Not really,

that taped-on plastic serves a useful purpose

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. He'd be the out-of-alignment wheel, pulling to the right. nt

[Bucky]

7. He's definitely wearing down our tread.

The country wants a robust stimulus. The country wants $15/hr. The country wants the filibuster gone. In most of these cases it's a bipartisan demand.

Manchin is roadblock #2. The Republicans are the bigger roadblock, but if Manchin supported the popular will, we could get around the Republicans.

I'm fully aware that I'm corrupting the metaphor at this point