McConnell is an institutionalist. He knows the Republicans aren’t going to be in the majority forever.
He also doesn’t need to worry about reelection.
Or living all that long in the America he was instrumental in bringing about (he’s 84).
Yeah, Moscow Mitch is a strategic Republican. I must be becoming accustomed to the new, impulsive Republicans who I figured would jump at the chance to deny someone the right to vote.
Murkowski is a no.
Thune says the bill is dead.
In case you missed it, Republicans are starting to flip on the nuclear option. This may be it. There was always going to be a triggering event, and this is one for the history books.
That’s Cormyn. He’s in a primary runoff right now and Trump is threatening to endorse Paxton instead, so he’s kissing Trump’s ass.
Thune is a protege of McConnell and has zero interest in getting rid of the filibuster.
“It’s bad when they do it but we do it only for good!” is the exact type of Republican hypocrisy the base eats up that will fill history books, should we survive to consider current events as history.