Bingo!
There's the way we'd Like our 'leaders/legislators' to be, and then there's the way they and their game is actually played.
Standing on ceremony, gentlemanly conduct, and Emily Post is not going to get us anything but more bruises.
McConnell had absolutely no problem going in hard and dirty to strong-arm his party and threaten them to deliver funding for Obama's agenda in all their continuing budget resolutions.
McConnell has absolutely no problem getting vicious in tearing apart anyone who opposes him in abject brutal fashion that would make any Democrat blush (ask Matt Bevin).
No. McConnell works behind the scenes to make sure the Oligarchy and Beast gets what it wants in terms of votes, and then he votes opposite simply to say to us that he opposed big government spending and Obamas agenda.
No he doesn't. He only fights hard to push the big government oligarchy, he plays 'gentlemen' when it comes time to roll it back. But he's no gentleman. We've seen what he really is, and he more identifies with the Democrats and the machine than he does with those of us out here he pretends to represent.