[iontheball]

McConnell is such a two faced SOB. Filibuster is the minorities card to oppose unwanted action by the other party. Reid’s stated intention is to strip the defunding language and replace it with his own funding language. If members voted to filibuster, it would have taken 60 votes to stop it. Reid might be hard pressed to get the votes. Now McConnell allows Reid to just blow right by this hurdle. No procedural opportunity should be waived but that is McConnell busy undermining Cruz and Lee. You got to wonder if Reid, McConnell and Boehner have cooked this all up in the back room.

[Political Junkie Too]

No procedural opportunity should be waived but that is McConnell busy undermining Cruz and Lee. 

It's the same thing that McConnell did with the debt ceiling fight in 2012. He swooped in at the last minute with a Senate "compromise" that undermined the House's strongest card and gave Obama the debt ceiling power. McConnell single-handedly snatched defeat from the House's victory, and now he's doing it again.

He's afraid of going against the Democrats, but not his own party.

-PJ