McConnell's failure theater

Martin Matishak writes at The Fiscal Times,

It looks like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have thrown in the towel on the GOP’s effort to stop the Iran nuclear deal from going into effect. To reject the pact designed to rein in Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, a majority of Congress would need to vote against it. But a two-thirds majority would be required to overcome the president’s promised veto of the resolution of disapproval, including at least 13 Democrats in the Senate, something McConnell admitted looks unlikely.

Obama “can win by getting one-third plus one of either house,” McConnell told a business group at an event on Monday in Kentucky, according to the Associated Press. “So he’s still got a great likelihood of success.” "I hope we can defeat it, but the procedure is obviously stacked in the president's favor," he told reporters after the event. "We'll see."

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Ace of Spades translates politician McConnell's failure theater:

Passive voice "the deck is stacked in the president's favor" sounds so much better than active voice "several months ago we deliberately stacked the the deck in the president's favor, so that we could pretend to vote against the deal while having already passed it into law."