 [HOT AIR] How did Donald Trump get Mitch McConnell to sign off on an emergency declaration? After all, McConnell had initially warned Trump that it would precipitate a civil war in the GOP and that Trump might well lose a vote to sustain it. By yesterday, though, McConnell ended up with the task of announcing the decision to the world on the Senate floor. Quite a journey indeed from Cocaine Mitch.
That doesn’t make him enthusiastic about it, former House Intel chair Mike Rogers told CNN this morning. The retired Republican congressman said it looked like McConnell was being forced to eat a "manure sandwich" in order to avoid a second shutdown:
From the memory hole: An interesting read from a 2014 Judicial Watch article on our old friend and former HPSCI Chairman, Congressman Mike Rogers at this link. 
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