From activist Jim Wright’s FB feed:
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Senate Dems: WE WILL NEVER YIELD!
Left: Yeah!
Senate Dems: WE'RE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY!
Left: Yes!
Senate Dems: WE ARE MIGHTY!
Left: Yes! Yes!
Senate Dems: WE ARE RIGHTEOUS!
Left: Never surrender!
Senate Dems: WE WILL NEVER GIVE IN!
Left: Never give in! Never give in!
Senate Dems: WE....
McConnell: So, how about maybe trade for these magic beans?
Senate Dems: Ooooooooooh!
Left: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? IT'S A HORRIBLE FUCKING DEAL! DON'T DO IT! DON'T DO IT!
Senate Dems: Shiny!
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And so it goes.
Predictably, Democrats folded. Can't say I'm surprised, given that none of them own a spine and never have.
McConnell, a man who has never kept his word to anybody, ever, promised Democrats that he'd allow a vote on DACA in exchange for another Continuing Resolution which extends government operation to February 8th.
Then we're right back to this same exact point.
Now, of course, Mitch McConnell IS lying. Because that's what he does. That's all he does.
You know it.
I know it.
McConnell knows it.
Republicans know it.
Democrat know it.
We all know it, but we're all going to pretend like we didn't hear him call jinx. When McConnell finds a way to weasel out of his promise, AND HE WILL, we're all supposed to act surprised that Mitch McConnell is a dirty rotten lying son of a bitch. What? Whaaaaaaaaaat? No way, he's never been a dirty rotten lying son of a bitch before, we had no way to know! Oh woe! Oh betrayal! <insert Macaulay Culkin Home Alone face here>
But here's the thing:
A lot of Americans are going to laugh nasty little laughs at how Mitch McConnell trolled Democrats.
And then they're going to go to the polls and reelect every one of these horrible people while Democrats cry in the corner about the fact that they trusted him and he was a dirty rotten lying son of bitch.
Ask yourself this: What leverage do Democrats have to hold Mitch McConnell or Donald Trump to this promise?
What?
What is it? Show it to me.
If McConnell yanks the football away, what can democrats actually do about it?
C'mon, show me.
Yeah.
Charlie Brown had it right, they're all rats.