the obvious thing—again i am not advising it for this nomination, just an existence proof!—is McDonnell’s grim trigger strategy. force a thing we absolutely oppose, we soak the Senate in molasses with every procedural lever. 1/

again, this is probably not the issue to go so nuclear! the point is, it’s not enough to say look we don’t have the numbers. the numbers are endogenous, the fact of a vote is endogenous, Schumer is the minority leader, which means he has to make hard judgement calls, but he’s not a bystander. /fin