Remember the scene in The Wind and the Lion? He catches two bedouins drinking from his well without asking permission. They both beg for their lives. He beheads one and let’s the other live, explaining to his captive, the kids’ governess, that he had to kill one, or the other would no longer respect him. Lop off McConnel’s head. He is not safe, because he wants to stay majority leader. So remove him. Strange has been primaried and lost to Judge Moore. So now you have two heads lopped off. Let the others live. They’re up for reelection, and they’ll have to prove their MAGA bona fides to get any committee chairs and memberships or other perks of seniority, under the new majority leader, who should be a pro-Trump ball buster, the more hard core the better. Don’t know the makeup of the Senate well enough to hazard a guess. But if he’s still around and pro-Trump, Charles Nighthorse Campbell sure sounds sexy.
I think Flake has probably got to go in the primary. He has no chance of re-election in the general with a sub 20% approval rating. If the rest vote for tax reform, a border wall, immigration reform, and stop stalling on Trump’s nominees, I’m fine leaving the rest alone.