Exactly! "It was a Sophie's Choice and we made the one that we felt was the more immediate need, which is people eating and planes not crashing. We haven't given up on the subsidies and we'll get another crack at it in January with the next CR." Instead it's "look at me, I'm a martyr."

If Durbin said, "The GOP was just too dug in on ACA subsidies, and we felt it was too important to get people's SNAP going and atcs back to work," fine. I don't like it, but fine. But to pretend getting a show vote on the subsidies is some huge risk deserving of huzzahs ... man, just stop talking.

There's an argument for some Dems leaked this news in order to blow a deal up, and maybe it's true, but Thune just doesn't sound like a guy who is confident of anything.

"So the president will relax his opposition to renewables and help states explore cheaper energy sources?"

"HA HA HA HA HA no."

Let's very much not talk about that.

Nope. Hamsters or possibly very small ferrets, but not dogs.