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tritsofme

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5. McConnell botched the politics of this thing from every angle

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Sun Feb 21, 2016, 02:35 PM

Feb 2016

He could have gotten immensely better press just by pretending to be civil.

They could have held hearings, voted no in committee, and then let it die to a filibuster on the floor, he could lose 14 Republican votes before cloture would be invoked on the nominee.

Instead McConnell did all he knows and went full-on obstructionist, what a great gift to the DSCC.

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