Now, in which one of those senarios will Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions get to be committee chairmen?
I see the bigger picture and the longer game. Nothing of consequence is going to get accomplished in this next Senate because Obama still has veto power and will have a veto proof minority.
What matters at this point is knocking in the head everyone on "our" side who is opposed to reform, and since McConnell represents that group, we need to take out the leader, same as a prison fight.
We take out McConnell, perhaps in two years we can actually get some reforms enacted. We leave McConnell in place, he continues to undermine the Tea Party, and the effort to reform continues to weaken.
The longer game looks at 2016 when there are a lot more GOP seats up than Dem.
It’s not enough to get to a majority this year. We need padding to protect that majority in 2016. Every seat counts, altho I’m willing to sacrifice one (which is an idea that Mark Levin proposed) to send a message. Given what happened in MS, that should IMHO be Cochrane. With the benefit that Childers appears to be a Conservative Dem in the mould of Zell Miller or Richard Shelby and will vote a lot with the GOP and might even be enticed to flip parties.