More in a second….
JUST NOW ON MSNBC, Rachel Maddow announces Mitch McConnell just announced he will no longer oppose the organizing resolution.
Thanks to the whole Senate Dem caucus — you stood tall for us!
McTurtle miscalculated the mood of the Dem Senate caucus, including it’s most conservative members. They all wanted their chairmanships, and every member in the Dem caucus were angry with McConnell. This may bode well when/if McConnell tries a similar trick on COVID relief or any other popular legislation.
As noted by some in the comments, McConnell wants to play this like a win for a “no nuke” agreement, but he’s wrong. Manchin and Sinema had already made such statements on maintaining the fillibusterbefore this kerfluffle, so he didn’t win anything. We’ll learn much more from Lawrence O’Donnell in the next hour, I think.
This is much more important than just the organizing resolution. It will break the dam on lots of nominations and the relief bill consideration. As then VP Biden would say, “This is a big, f-ing deal!”.