[kitchen]

Reid put the measure on the Senate floor and concocted the clay pigeon strategy.

Reid claims that McConnell came up with the clay pigeon maneuver. I tend to believe this because Reid is neither a parliamentary scholar or bright enough to understand and successfully implement something this arcane.

[Lancey Howard]

We may never know the truth, but the “clay pigeon” strategy has Kennedy written all over it. I suspect that the tip went from Kennedy to the White House, and from there to McConnell. Just a guess.