Close it in time to run for the Cruz seat. Cruz can then wait for Trumps 2nd SCOTUS appointment.
That works for me. Too many politicians are all hat and no cattle. Shutting down the DOE would be a resume enhancer.
Granted the reasons for wanting Cruz on SCOTUS, I hope it will not happen, at least not until Trump’s third pick (were that to happen).The Republicans only have 52 in the Senate, and Democrats love to prattle about Republican SCOTUS nominees being “out of the mainstream.” But in that context Trump’s list of potential nominees - potentially a liability during the election campaign - is now a trump card. The Democrats’ problem is that the “out of the mainstream” dog won’t hunt when the nominee’s identity fulfills an explicit campaign promise. A promise, BTW, which helped him attract support from Christian voters nationwide.
If the Democrats had made a valid issue over the record of anyone on that list, they could now claim that the actual nominee was “worse than that.” They defaulted on that opportunity, and now they don’t have a leg to stand on if they oppose Trump’s nominee. If the nominee is on Trump’s list.
In 2018 the Democrats will have 25 - half their total senate caucus - seats to defend. Ten of them from states Trump won las month. The Democrats have been weak in the last two non-presidential elections, so the iron will be hot in ’18, and the Republicans must strike. Failure to win seats in ’18 would set the Republicans up for loss of the majority in ’20 or ’22, when they will have an average of 22 - not a mere 8 as in 2018 - incumbents to defend.
The Republicans must have those 25 Democrat senators - especially the most vulnerable ten - sweating bullets over their reelection. They must go to work right now recruiting solid nominees in all 25 of the states with Democrat seats up for reelection.
Yeah, lets’s support an unethical lying POS for SCOTUS.