re: #78 No Malarkey!

But all Mitch McConnell wants is tax cuts and judges, and neither one requires the filibuster be abolished, so he won’t do it, just as he wouldn’t do it when Trump was tweeting that he should.

Yet neither was really the first item on his agenda in 2017, abolishing the ACA was and he was prepared to do everything in his power to make it happen. The TCJA was the fallback, passed largely because the clock on reconciliation was ticking down and they needed something “major” to run on the following year.