@catfish1957
I can't believe you are naive enough to believe "Mitch,the bitch" wasn't in on the deal.
Sorry, not naivety. As mentioned above, benefit of the doubt knowing politicans drunk on power can only survive with another bottle on the way. More likely a form of captitulation, knowing that any semebelence of power sharing (50/50) relies at least playing nice part of the time.