[dware]

Is that correct?

It is 100% correct. Now, whether he'll actually bring it back up again, well, that remains to be seen. At the moment, however, the outrage seems misplaced. Don't get me wrong, McTurtle is a GOPE shill and is NO BETTER than a dummycrat, but the outrage is kinda funny to watch on this one. If he don't bring it back up, then yes, the outrage should increase tenfold. But at the moment, it SEEMS much ado about nothing.

[Political Junkie Too]

Sometimes the optics outweighs procedure. McConnell outsmarted himself on the optics this time. He's on record as opposing defunding Planned Parenthood, and no amount of explaining procedure will overcome that.

The fact remains that McConnell boxed himself into this corner all by himself. He chose to block Rand Paul's defunding amendment to the highway bill that would only have needed 51 votes to pass, in exchange for this standalone bill that needed 60 votes to pass.

Ted Cruz says that McConnell did that to protect his back-room deal for the Ex-Im bank, because Obama would have vetoed the bill with defunding in it. It was all for nothing because the House refused to take up McConnell's highway bill and recessed for August.

So now McConnell is left with the stain of this Nay vote, and an explanation that is falling on deaf ears.

-PJ