Still not settled.
But it would be frosting on the cake, to be sure, if yet another seat is picked up in the aftermath of the “November 4th Massacre”.
We have only just begun....
Harry Reid may regret having brought the “nuclear option” into play while serving as Senate Majority Leader. Perhaps all the decisions made in the Senate while using that tactic could be overturned on the introduced technicality, that those actions be negated, and the “nuclear option” never, ever, be brought up again.
But don’t on Mitch McConnell to pursue such a radical course.
Now, it will be possible to reopen the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010”, and give it the airing-out it should have. Not to repeal the legislation outright, but strip it of its various most odious provisions, eliminating virtually all the taxes assessed by its provisions, and defunding those parts that serve no effective function. Eventually, the act will be so neutralized, it will have virtually no effect remaining.
And oh, yes, restore the “hold” a Senator may place on any nominee the Current Occupant may offer up for confirmation, forcing, at worst, a “recess” appointment which expires with the current term of office of the Current Occupant. That way, the incoming President in 2016 has a somewhat more free hand in appointing judges to the Federal Bench, as all the “recess” appointments will be swept out.
Or, who knows, the Current Occupant may actually offer up a nominee for the particular office or position that is in fact reasonably competent, and not a total lackey and butt-smoocher for the Current Occupant.
I'd like some of those drugs you're taking. :>)
Restoring the hold, and thereby limiting the damage Obola can do, is a capital idea. I'm sure that Cruz and Cotton (among others) will push hard for it. Of course, it doesn't help if the nominated people are from states with 2 Dems Senators, but it is very helpful.