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    Nicholas Goldberg: How Joe Manchin got his superpowers

    by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times Aug 05, 2022 3 minutes
    Shelley Moore Capito pay respects to US Marine Corp Chief Warrant Officer 4, Hershel Woodrow Woody Williams, lays in honor at the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2022.- Woody Williams, of West Virginia, who died at age 98 on June 29, 2022, was the last living World War II Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.

    By what possible definition of democracy is it OK for Joe Manchin, a single senator elected with a mere 290,000 votes from the tiny state of West Virginia, to wield power that exceeds that of his 99 colleagues and rivals that of the president of the United States?

    The self-described "conservative Democrat" appears to have just decided what our national climate change policy will be. Before that, he decreed the future of the filibuster. For all intents and purposes, he gets to say what President Joe Biden's legacy will be.

    He's in total control, it sometimes seems. But.

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