@kentwillard I guess I think getting Manchin on-board with IRA after he tanked BBB, getting Eric McCarthy to join a debt-ceiling deal that (unintentionally of the Biden Administration) became his political death warrant, getting Mike Johnson to authorize Ukraine aid despite very credible threats to his career for acceding all go way beyond deference to trusted experts. Different people for sure, but similarly ambitious and vain people. And here, there really is a lot more mutual interest.