Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) drops debt ceiling hostage demand two weeks after he went full-hostage taker in a Houston Chronicle op-ed. Why the change? “You sometimes try to inject a little doubt in your negotiating partner about where you’re going to go,” Cornyn told the paper.
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