Joe Manchin: “The Bowles-Simpson plan outlined some cost-savings measures for defense that have not been acted upon.”

They better figure out how they lost moderate, centrist, fiscally responsible, socially compassionate.

When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.

It can't be this total political division. It's not my fault. It's your fault. It's their fault.

So you’re not making a commitment that you owe your soul to the company store, or basically to the parties, whether it be a D or an R, they’re going to have to earn your support, but the people will be much better off, and they’ll…