Sen. Jim Bunning’s one-man filibuster collapsed quickly this evening. Just as Dems were considering making him actually filibuster, a deal was reached for Bunning to drop his filibuster in return for getting Senate votes on certain amendments Bunning favors but which are unlikely to pass. So sounds like a pretty complete capitulation.
The deal appears to have been engineered in part by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a sign that even the GOP was ready for this tawdry display of the Senate’s Republican-fueled dysfunction to end.
