While that is all true, it is still worth noting that worst case they still cared enough to be disingenuous about their voting records. If they believed that t

While that is all true, it is still worth noting that worst case they still cared enough to be disingenuous about their voting records. If they believed that they could just get away with sweeping it under the rug, they would not even have tried to manipulate the optics of the vote. That's still a victory in the face of all the propaganda downplaying the importance of the issue.