Senator Joe Manchin

Now, for that, if you want a little bit of balance of power to challenge a little bit, calm it down a little bit, then you'd want the Democrats to win the House, the Congress.

And if that could happen, then it might calm it down.

We've got to calm it down.

We've got to turn down the temperature.

And if that would turn it down, maybe fine.

Because when you have the trifecta, you can keep throwing stuff up there and pushing things pretty darn hard.

Okay.

Expectation on Obama was that he was bringing a complete different scenario to it, an all-inclusive scenario, as you will.

Now it was a possibility for all of us to participate, no matter what your gender, what your race, boom, boom, boom.

So with that, we were expecting an awful lot.

And I think he had a lot of compassion, but he just didn't communicate well with the legislature.

I didn't know that because I didn't serve with him until I got there at the end of 2010, 2011.

And I could see you've got to participate.

You've got to get involved.

You got to call them over to the White House.

and work him.

I thought he could have done a lot more with that to get better participation.

And basically we got rid under him, they got rid of the filibuster, we lost the filibuster for the judges, judicial system.

And I wasn't upset by losing him for basically appointments that were will and pleasure, but it went further than that.

So that, I think that helped erode a lot of the checks and balances we had.