I am not so certain.
McConnell is an extremely crafty old Senator, who, I am certain, loved being Senate Majority leader.
He may see the key to defeating the Democrats as rope-a-dope. Keep absorbing a little punishment to trade for delay, delay, delay.
The Democrats should have passed this in the first month of the administration. They could not do it.
Now it is less than a year to the mid-terms. It gets harder and harder to pass each passing day.
It gets harder and harder to implement in time for the mid-terms to have an effect.
I do not know if that is what McConnell is doing, but it might be.
You may well be right. Much as he puts my teeth on edge, he is one of the best parliamentarians in that position ever.