CORRECTION!

Dear reader(s),

Though it was unintentional, I must apologize for misleading you.  I recently claimed in a blog post that Mitch McConnell is the worst negotiator ever.  However, this implies that one day a worse negotiator may join the senate.  Instead, in the interest of accuracy, I should have said, "Mitch McConnell is the worst negotiator possible."  This week the senate minority leader actually lost a negotiation with himself.  As I've already noted, POTUS has been calling on congress to relinquish control over the debt ceiling.  McConnell (among others) has been dragging his feet over this, despite the fact that he proposed a bill in 2011 which would have had precisely this effect.  On Thursday, believing that senate democrats would oppose such a bill, McConnell called for a vote on the McConnell plan.  Harry Reid agreed to an immediate up or down (simple majority) vote.  McConnell was assuming that Reid would baulk, showing disunity among democrats and especially between congressional democrats and the White House.  When Reid agreed, McConnell had not choice but to filibuster his own bill--a bill for which he himself had called the vote.  The full story here, and here, and here, and here.  Video here.