[Hoot Gibson]

Biden is no moderate and his handlers are hard leftists.

'Two People': Biden Leans Left, Hints Manchin, Sinema to Blame for Stalled Agenda

After running on unifying a divided America, President Joe Biden has acted as the peacemaker, nurturing the fragile order between moderates and progressives in his fractured party.

But with a fierce stalemate between the two opposing wings in a make-or-break week, Biden leaned left on Saturday with a suggestion that centrist Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema were to blame for the Democrats' infrastructure fiasco.

"We can bring the moderates and progressives together very easily if we had two more votes. Two. Two people," Biden told reporters, taking a veiled jab at key holdouts Manchin and Sinema.

A vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill was delayed this week after progressive and moderate Democrats failed to reach an agreement on an ambitious $3.5 trillion spending bill, a crucial part of Biden's domestic agenda known as the Build Back Better Act.
Manchin and Sinema refused to support the size and scope of the larger package, and progressives rebelled, saying they would not vote for the infrastructure bill unless it's passed in tandem with the spending package.

With the two factions at odds, Democrats returned to the negotiating table Friday, with Biden telling the caucus it's "just reality" that the infrastructure bill won't succeed if Manchin and Sinema don't get onboard with the larger package. He acknowledged that reaching a deal could take weeks.