mcconnell had unanimously accepted the same deal, and what nancy p pe lelosi had them pass night is what the senate had passed word-for-word, and it is the burden on mitch mcconnell to say why he is standing firm, and the obvious answer is that he had the rug pulled out from underneath him by the president of his own party and he does not want to bring anything no the floor that he doesn t know for shurna the president is going to accept. and now a crack in the republican ranks, right? so far, susan collins and gardner from colorado saying, make a deal and end this shutdown. so the republicans made two tactical missteps into the leadup of the shutdown. first, the president saying that he would own the shutdown, and the second is the white house giving the senate assurances if they passed that clean c.r. to keep the government funded until february, the government would pass it. and mitch mcconnell does not put