re: #247 ckkatz

What I took away from Maddow and O’Donnell Monday evening was that Trump wants a fight. To force his supporters to stand by him and support him. And McConnell may force a public vote to embarrass any Republican Senators who might vote against Kavanaugh.

Whether that will be enough to keep the Republicans unified will be interesting to see. The fear is that as if lockstep discipline and unity breaks down, the party might collapse.

I do not expect that to happen until after the mid-terms. And, if the Democrats win, I expect that the lameduck session to be filled with the Republicans giving everybody the middle finger.

McConnell will only have a vote on Kavanaugh if either 1) he has at least 50 votes or 2) Trump absolutely refuses to withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination and having a losing vote is the only way to move forward. He doesn’t want his Senators to have to make bad votes just before the mid-terms when the Democrats have a real chance of winning control of the Senate.