The reasoning beats me too especially as Scott seems to be in a particularly weak spot to try this sort of stunt given how the Senate midterms played out.
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I missed the old Richard Burr, from before he sold out to win statewide office. Good to see he's back.
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Mitch McConnell wins secret-ballot election to continue leading Senate Republicans | CNN Politics
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has won a secret-ballot leadership election after days of finger-pointing over the Republican election losses, putting him on pace to become the longest-serving Senate party leader in US history.
37-10-1 in favor of McConnell is no surprise. What is a surprise is the big chicken that voted 'present'. Who is that? The only person I can see having legitimate grounds to recuse himself is Daines (as the person following Scott in the RNSC job), who has to work with Scott on his re-election campaign.
now that Dems have control of the senate, send Walker, go on, it'll be great!
Cross fingers looks like marriage bill will pass
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Retiring senators, plus Northern and Western ones, plus Tillis. Interesting coalition. Among the more moderate members of the conference, with the exception of Lummis. The fact that Burr and Blunt, whose Senate voting records were so conservative they made my teeth hurt, are now among the most moderate shows just how far right the Republican conference has lurched in the last twenty years.
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E&Y piling on at the end is interesting. Ernst isn't quite as conservative as Lummis, on voting record. It looks like she's been slowly changing tack on these issues over the last ten years. Young is considerably more moderate, as Republicans go.
Feinstein resigning would be great but wouldn’t be certain the Newsom would nominate Schiff even as temp replacement.
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22 years of House seniority is a lot to cough up. He starts at the bottom in the Senate, coming in ahead of the rest of his class by virtue of that House service, but that's it. The only members of the Senate with comparable House tenures are Schumer (18 years) and Cardin (20). Schiff would end up much more Cardin than Schumer, as Schumer first got elected to the House in his twenties.
His gripe appears to be that McCarthy will boot him from the ranking member chair on Intelligence, by denying him the committee assignment. He's probably better off swallowing his pride and biding his time. He can quickly slide up the food chain to posts like the chair/ranking member of Armed Services, Rules and what not on the way to Appropriations and Ways and Means, if he stays put.
It's not like the media will stop talking to him. He'll be the Democratic face of the chamber with Pelosi gone, since he's such a good interview.
The only way it makes sense is if he thinks he can be the presidential nominee in 2028, in which case I would still tell him to launch the bid from the House. Sure, a mere representative hasn't managed that in ages, but we just had a 'no experience' president. The rules are a little different now.
For me, Romney is the biggest surprise in this list. Although Romney is an established RINO, I thought him representing Utah would hold more substance because Utah is an ultra-conservative state with mormons who don't believe in gay marriage.
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