[Political Junkie Too]

Rush,

Ixnay on the secret anetplay, or you'll lose your eatsay on the ocketray!

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Rush,

What about the thought that McConnell is being played by Schumer on the Gorsuch filibuster?

What if Schumer convinces McConnell that he doesn't need the nuclear option because there are enough Democrats to force cloture, and then Schumer reneges and Gorsuch ends up failing cloture and gives the MSM their story for the week?

Would McConnell have the nerve to invoke the nuclear option AFTER a failed cloture vote, or would he be better off invoking the nuclear option and having a majority cloture vote from the start?

I believe the rule is that the Senate requires a 48-hour notice for cloture, so a second cloture vote that invokes the nuclear option would come after two days of the Democrats and MSM haranguing McConnell about it, saying the failed first cloture is proof that Gorsuch is "outside the mainstream."

-PJ