How would the Master of the Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson handle Joe Manchin? Years ago an LBJ aide from the mid-1950's told me how his boss handled a Manchin type. Johnson was the Majority Leader in the Senate. I think the subject was foreign aid and LBJ needed a vote from the reluctant Senator who poured forth all the reasons he had for not siding with the dear Leader.
During a meeting with Sen. X, LBJ told my old friend John Davis then college aged, to fetch a large knife. He brought LBJ a butcher knife in a paper bag. Johnson then stood up and dropped his pants, and underwear and, literally put his penis on a table. He held up the knife and shouted something like "if I don't get your vote you might as well cut off my pecker" and he passed the knife to the Senator in question. Johnson shouted "just cut it off"...that's what you are doing to me." Johnson saved his pecker and won the vote and next time he did not need to pull a stunt like that.
Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer need to meet with Joe in a knife shop to see who still has his pecker.