re: #180 Myron Falwell

I don’t think it’s being mentioned enough just how much McConnell totally played himself here. Unlike Trump, he has only one way out… allowing a veto-proof CR vote… and it will humiliate him and destroy his Machiavellian façade of being this calculating tactician.

When lackeys like Lindsey and Rubio are now pleading for Trump to go the “emergency” declaration route, it’s McConnell they want to save. Not Trump. They can’t afford to have him back down, because when he does, it’s an admission of guilt that McConnell was to blame for the whole thing. It’s a con in and of itself, just like this racist wall being the last lingering element of the Great Trump Con that’s inevitably going to come crashing down.

Only problem is, Pelosi IS the brilliant tactician McConnell has always claimed to be, and she’s now emboldened Sen. Schumer. And the polls are showing that the GOP’s ridiculous stonewalling is starting to undo all the demonizing they’ve unleashed on her since the early 2000s.

Two comments:
1. Agree about McConnell: for a guy who’s supposed to be this iron-fisted Senate Leader, he’s backed himself into an unpleasant corner over the “Wall/Trump Shutdown”: I would have thought that he would have, by now, come up with some sort of face-saving compromise (one agreed to between Republicans and Democrats in both Houses)
that would get the government re-opened, and still leave The Orange Anus with some sort of Wall bullshit or other that would let him declare “victory”, and everyone can all move on to the next crisis.
But as it happened, McConnell, who was expecting the main problem to come from the Democrats, got sandbagged by “his own” WH instead. [Womp Womp…]
2. It should be noted that that years-long GOP “demonization” of Nancy Pelosi has been usually based mainly on ideological grounds (“loony-left San Francisco liberal”, etc.) ignoring her considerable political skills - honed even sharper by years in the Minority. Sort of the converse of their regard of former Speaker Paul Ryan: hailed (by GOPers) as some sort of genius/visionary because he pushed for all the right pro-oligarchal policies, but as a political leader in the House, all but useless.