Ten Democrats show hypocrisy, risk defeat by backing Biden’s hideous spending bills

The most damning indictment of the national Democratic Party these days is that Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are relegated to their own little island.

More than a half-dozen other Democratic senators should be showing the modicum of legislative caution and fiscal sanity that Manchin and Sinema are demonstrating in talks on federal spending. They all campaigned, falsely, as supposed “moderates,” and they represent “swing states” that are relatively evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. In these states, voting records far from the center make it far harder for senators to be reelected.