Must. Stop. Schadenfreude. No use... bwahahahaha.
The plan that [Senate Majority Leader Mitch "Missy"] McConnell announced yesterday evening is more or less the same one that had been floated to The Hill: He will decouple the the riders undoing President Obama’s executive actions on deportation from the DHS appropriations bill. There will now, presumably, be two votes: one stand-alone bill eliminating Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigrations — the provision against the 2012 program, DACA, will be dropped altogether, since they’ve finally discovered that being mean to children is a bad look — and then a “clean” bill on DHS funding. The timetable for getting on that “clean” bill is still unclear and may require a brief extension, since there are only four days of funding left and it takes the Senate forever to get a bill to the floor.
We’d keep our mouths shut about how this is a total cave-in from McConnell, but it’s obvious enough, and conservatives are already plenty aware. McConnell is ceding the GOP’s leverage. It’s the only move he’s got, since the Democrats’ leverage — that Republicans will be blamed for a shutdown — is considerably stronger. (our emphasis)Of course, the Crazy Caucus (i.e., House Republicans) can always find a way to not love America (see how we did that?), but we still think it's not too soon to break out the musical accompaniment for the latest McConnell/ Boehner self-inflicted catastrophe.
