The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the president’s plan to battle climate change.
I was going back through old text messages between the (second) Ex Unfortunate Mrs Harris and myself looking for something completely unrelated and saw all of these texts from just earlier this year on President Biden: giddy, thrilled, breathtaking, "Best president ever", I wrote under a picture of the president. That was after the first 100 days, after he had killed COVID dead, after the House had passed a voting rights bill that would have re-anchored America firmly to democracy's moorings, when they passed his two sweeping social bills that included decisive climate action. Before Delta, before Afghanistan, before concerns of competence, before inflation, before Manchin and Sinema. More heartbreaking for its swiftness, it has all been snatched away. I became sad.
