So the real problem is that Moore might make the Senate majority actually govern like a majority?
Not sure you’re correct, but it’s an interesting theory.
Let’s be clear? Moore will be opposed to a “pro-forma” recess and McConnell would allow it, or is it the other way around???
It would seem with a Moore win (which I expect) the Dim minority could not get a “pro-forma” recess. So McConnell wants Moore to lose, so the Dims could get a “pro-forma” recess and block Trump recess appointments??
I think he fears they will gum up the works and Mitch will get burnt for having the (on paper) majority and still being unable to get anything passed.
Mitch is thinking maybe he's not up to the task. Much easier, and pays the same, to let the Dems lead instead. In the short run, it's less effort to give up without trying, isn't it?
That's how you squander an 8-year window for real change.
I hear Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath” when I think of Mitch “Yertle” McConnell trying to keep the US Senate Train on the tracks, while it’s inexorably careening out of control. Except it’s not “old Charlie” who is his nemesis:
In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all, time loser,
Headlong to his death
He feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train it won’t stop going
No way to slow down
He sees his children jumping off
At stations, one by one
His woman and his best friend
In bed and having fun
He’s crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train it won’t stop going
No way to slow down
He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls
That is completely wrong. Think about it, if a unanimous vote was needed to recess than the Senate would be in permanent session. McConnell can recess the Senate and Schumer can call for pro-forma sessions to keep Trump from making recess appointments.
Makes me think of Jesse Helms.