[stripes1776]

Could mean that they don't have the votes and thus need Cardoza's vote. He said he was a "no" so long as it was done by Demon Pass.

I think you are right. If the Dems had the votes for deem and pass, they would go forward with it. But they don't, so why go forward when it will fail?

Dems will now just delay and try to switch a few votes to the yes side. Let's hope they fail on that as well.

[Kevin in California]

What you’re slowly witnessing is the takeover of this great country and they’ve yet to fire a shot.

I pray to god it doesn’t take shots to take our country back.

[mamelukesabre]

whatever.

It’s because deem and pass got so much negative publicity, it was costing them votes. So they dropped deem and pass to maintain their majority vote count.