Who trusts Mitch McConnell?

Not I. Nor Charlie Pierce.

Schumer and the Democrats didn’t give up much at all but, rather, decided to live to fight in February on funding the government, and to fight on DACA in March. But, for me, McConnell is a rare combination of being ruthless and being truthless, and the House has lost its mind, and the president* has disappeared.

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Virtually within seconds of the end of Senator Chuck Schumer’s speech announcing that enough members of his Democratic minority will vote for a bill aimed at re-opening the federal government, a concession based entirely on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s “intention” to bring something to a vote that will address the situation of the DACA recipients, McConnell was back to referring to said recipients as “illegal immigrants.”

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Not to harsh the mellow of Susan Collins, but it’s going to be very interesting to see exactly when this whole thing falls apart. (The same goes for Senator Joe Manchin, whose “tough-guy moderate” act is getting older than the Appalachians. [...] President John Kelly or co-President Stephen Miller could step in and put the kibosh on it. The Freedom Caucus whackadoos in the House could yank on the choke-collar they have on Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin. Or Mitch McConnell simply could be bullshitting the entire nation, again.

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And what, then, will Collins do if McConnell reneges on her, or if he arranges that the Senate majority reneges on his behalf, as he’s already done to her on other issues? What will Manchin do if the nominal president* changes his mind 111 times in the next week and ends up on the wrong side of this deal? What will the entire “bipartisan moderate” caucus do if the Freedom Caucus deranges the House even further than it does on a daily basis? The answer is, none of those people can do anything, even if they wanted to.

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[T]he campaign talking point that the Democrats are stealing money from Our Troops to give it to the various branches of MS-13 is somewhat blunted. Golf clap. They’re going to use it anyway.

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The truth is not in these people because, given the nature of their political base, and given the essential political immorality of their donor class, it hasn’t had to be for a very long time.

  Charles P Pierce

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Losers.