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Dad Who Told Biden ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Now Pushing Big Lie On Steve Bannon’s Podcast
Crisis of Command 
I want to expand on what I mentioned in Morning Memo about some really good work from the Just Security guys on better understanding the delay in the deployment of the National Guard.
From the get-go, TPM’s coverage has been more circumspect about the decision to involve the military in the response to the attack.
Why?
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A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the seeming “punt” of the reconciliation bill and how Democrats can still generate forward momentum.
You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.
Was BBB Doomed As Soon As BIF Passed?
TPM Reader PT checks in on Manchin, BBB, and the current swoon:
Read MoreFor pretty much the entire time of the Biden Administration legislative activity, I’ve been of the opinion that the whole issue of the BBB was best understood as a kind of culture war. The problem that the Manchin caucus really has with the BBB is that it represents a Democratic Party in which the moderate / conservative / Manchin caucus is not firmly in the driver seat all the time, for all things.