It’s inevitable that the Democrats will get control of the Senate. The pendulum swings and eventually the party in power is out.

And when that happens the Republicans will pound their widdle fists and whine about how totally unfair it is whenever the Democrats do anything that even hints at not giving the Republicans an equal seat at the table.

And when the power shifts again and Republicans are once again in control they will see absolutely nothing wrong in shutting the Democrats out.

Of course they will. No question.

A lot people have pointed out to me that McCain is religiously devoted to the rules of Senate. So he definitely thinks he’s doing the right thing, but it may not be a “die on the right foot thing.”

“Senator McCain has his reasons for saying that. He’s entitled to them. All I can tell you is that this economy is not going to get better until we do tax reform,” Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana said in an interview.

Tax cuts—which do not constitute tax reform (as Kevin Drum helpfully reminds us), but are all the Rs are actually proposing—do not, as a rule, positively affect the economy, no matter how many magic asterisks are applied. Senator Kennedy has made the worst mistake a conman can make: he believes his own patter (so does Paul Ryan, but he’s a special case since he also believes his own press releases).

I’ve never had much use for John McCain, as everyone here is well aware, but maybe he’ll do the right thing for the country and stand up to the inevitable pressure from the R leadership and the inevitable brickbats from Righty media.

–alopecia