I originally wrote this post as if caving was inevitable, and included a lot of very mean things that would make senators cry, but then thought "better" of it and deleted most of the mean things. Silly me!
Many of you seemed to be commenting on the original, deleted bits! Maybe they were posted somehow.
Anyway, whatever their reasons, this was not 8 "rogue" senators or even 10. It was a lot of them with grinning Chuck Schumer's blessing. They took the weekend to orchestrate the whole thing and make sure everyone played their hero/villain roles appropriately.
No senator who isn't calling for Schumer to be replaced should be listened to, because they are all being dishonest. That is, I believe, all of them, as of this moment.
