WAPO: McConnell relents on Senate rules, signals power-sharing deal with Democrats

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-relents-on-senate-rules-signals-power-sharing-deal-with-democrats/2021/01/25/fe4d1634-5f7c-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

By Mike DeBonis Jan. 25, 2021 at 9:53 p.m. EST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday night signaled he would step back from an ultimatum over Senate rules that sparked a partisan showdown, which threatened to obstruct President Biden’s early legislative agenda.

McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement that he was ready to move forward with a power-sharing accord with Democrats on how to operate the evenly divided Senate, defusing a potentially explosive clash over the minority’s rights to block partisan legislation.

McConnell on Monday said he was prepared to move forward on a deal “modeled on that [2001] precedent” after two Democratic senators — Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) — publicly reiterated their previously stated opposition to eliminating the filibuster.

[Enterstageleft]

1. I'm confused. WHY?

[marylandblue]

2. He probably had no choice. Someone threatened him with something behind the scenes.

[Enterstageleft]

4. Good Goddess, I hope you are right...

McConnell, his b***h wife & her father.

They need to be taken down. NOW!

[regnaD kciN]

5. Perhaps a few Republicans...

...like Mittens, Murkowski, etc., told him they wouldn't support filibustering this and, if McConnell persisted in this course, they would vote with the Democrats to make the Organizing Resolution "privileged" (i.e. couldn't be filibustered). It would only take a couple of Republican defectors to cancel out Manchin and Sinema.

[still_one]

3. The speculation is that Schumer had the votes to threaten using the nuclear option if

McConnell didn’t drop his demand

Manchin still is against getting rid of the filibuster as I understand it, but said if McConnell didn’t stop blocking the power sharing he would he would vote for the nuclear option