[Mr. Jazzy]

""The problem with a mini-deal is we have a maxi problem. And these -- the big problems -- aren't going to go away if you cut a mini-deal. All it does is delay the moment of truth. So I'd say better now than then," Sen. John Cornyn told "Fox News Sunday."

"But if we can't, we'll take savings we can get now, and we'll re-litigate as we get closer to election," said Cornyn, R-Texas.

That says "we will take the mini-deal now and try harder next time!" to me, which justifies the headline and the need to kick his sorry ass out of the Senate!

[Lancey Howard]

That says "we will take the mini-deal now and try harder next time!" to me

That says to me that one Republican senator, as opposed to "Republicans", muses that he might reluctantly(?) go along with a cave, presumably if everybody else does. The headline makes it sound like the Republicans are resigned to caving and even preparing to cave, but that misleading speculation is based on the musings of a single Republican senator.

FRegards,
LH