re: #176 I cannot.

I’ve got to agree, it makes no sense. Putin isn’t in the picture here, because he’d be OK with just plain disarray, he’d have no desire for a specific legislative outcome on a domestic matter, especially not this desperation for speed. Kochs, Mercers etc aren’t really good suspects because they CAN play the long game and again, the desperation for speed keeps backfiring.

I think it is the realization that they allowed in the extreme right with the Tea Party people which over the Obama years may have begun to chase off the moderates.

They made the crazies their base and now they have to please them or they are gone. Mitch knows he put that base on fire last night and he and they are gonna get burned.