maybe so. but if you assume you will always lose, you sure will! the game is rigged, yes. you have to play it anyway. you don’t know, not do i, what levers exist among and between Senators and Senate leadership. what horses might be traded or hopes threatened. 1/

again, whatever levers there are, this might not be the priority to spend them on. i’m glad to defer to Schumer’s judgment on that. but the job of the Senate Minority Leader is not to “look at the math” and throw up his hands. /fin