McConnell knows that conservative judges are his ONLY means to mollify conservatives, for he knows that we know that he’s a fraud. So like everything else, he wants to pretend that he’s for something, while instituting the opposite.
Vote FOR cloture, but AGAINST the bill. Same thing, allow what you don’t want to move forward, while pretending to be against it. Same with judicial confirmations in reverse. He wants to convince conservatives that he’s for confirming more nominations, while Chuck Grassley in the background keeps the blue-slip procedure. And Mitch will say “wasn’t me, it was him. I was for getting rid of it.”
But we’re on to the game.
I know what you mean.
And yep, we’re following the guy closely.