Originally Posted by seksi

Blame the Dems all you want, but ultimately you have to admit that McConnell failed to to be an effective leader in the Senate he made a pledge he couldn't keep, and he couldn't keep his own GOP Senators on the job, many of them are too busy campaigning for 2016 to bother showing up for the GOP's #1 legislative priority, this Canadian pipeline deal.

Instead of allowing full debate and a normal process for the bill, McConnell broke his pledge, quashed debate, scheduled a vote on cloture at the worst possible time for his own pet project. Why? Was an open and transparent debate on the merits of a radical move to approve this pipeline without completing the normal permitting process so harmful to Transcada that they engineered this scuttling? Or can McConnell simply not count?

Nevada's Harry Reid was a much more skillful & effective puppet for the 1% as Senate Majority Leader. I am not so sure that at that level partisanship matters. Process obviously does, though.