I am not [by far] the wisest among my fellows. However this makes perfect sense to me, as far-fetched as it seems. They voted against a hard retaliation to the soft coup. The rationale behind not making moves when the arrests didn't come was simple - whatever replaces our Government if we rise up is likely to be no better than what we have already. It is not our foundation, it is corruption at the top. Calling a Constitutional Convention would allow every weasel who still works in the background to legitimately solidify their personal power structures in whatever new Government came out of a Constitutional Convention. I voted for action. Time and again. Women and Men with cooler heads prevailed. All of the rot needed to be excised to save the tree. That couldn't happen without very deliberate long term strategies to bring them all out into the open. So one by one, we laid traps, sweetened our Honey, misdirected, had some laughs, made a few mistakes; But here we are, less than a month away from the debut of our big production. Edit: Also Jeb was never meant to be the one. He was a fallback when their "straw man" beat them by letting his allies un-rig the game. Jeb was the first sign we had that they had lost control.