Crapo, Lee, Moran, Paul, Portman, Risch, Rubio, Scott, Sessions, Shelby and Vitter.
Consider them the core Cruz group. Vitter is retiring, but there should be, net, another seven conservatives starting next month. That makes a core group of 11+1+7 = 19. If you add a few lemmings who see the writing on the wall and you aren't far from a majority in the GOP caucus.
Very much like the coalescing in 1773-6, except this time the Uniparty is going down hard. Even schoolkids have figured Marxists out (thanks Mooch!), and want no part.
Are the Progressives just going to crawl back into the woodwork, waiting for another 50 years to pass before some movement beckons them out again? Or should we just drop them over the Atlantic.
Bingo! That is why they are doing a cram down on this, they needed to do it before they loose their numbers, the conservative ascendency is a tide they Uni-Party is desperately trying to stop to keep the gravy coming from K-Street and keep their power and prolly keep all their relatives employed in the beltway region. Harry Reid's life is not going to be a flippin' nightmare in January, he will be a politically castrated ass clown, but Mitch McConnell's will be.