Purely on the politics, the big lesson of the last 12 years is: the faster you do things the better. The vote margin doesn't matter so much as 1) getting it done 2) the thing itself being popular. The *worst* thing for the politics of legislation is long drawn out process.
Now if the thing itself is bad, then obviously rushing is bad, but that's just downstream of it itself being bad! And if you have some quasi-religious belief in bi-partisanship in and of itself, then fine, but you can't say you're doing it for better politics or better outcomes.
Which is kind of where we are with, Manchin and Sinema. To them *the process is the point.* Not the outcome itself, nor the politics, but the act of bi-partisanship.
The problem is that if that's a first principle, it's hard to persaude them otherwise. Like trying to convince someone their god is a false one.
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