He won’t have to cave. He’ll be allowed by Obama to pass this and then Obama will veto it. These people spent their entire lives scheming to get there and they will scheme away every waking hour to stay there.
In the end, he’ll feign a ‘good fight’ and depend on his constituents picking the lesser of two evils while he simultaneously crushes any real conservative dissent. It’s what they do. IIRC, his ticket is punched until 2018. What him worry?
* What him worry? *
I really wish that we had Alfred E Newman instead of Mitch as a Senator!
...he couldn’t do any worse
Someone has figured it out.