[lee martell]

One can only hope this will be the outcome. Just keep John (Maverick) McCain, Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell and John (boo-hoo)Boehner away from the controls. You just know they will try to ‘save’ the Dems from themselves just to get a proverbial ‘star on their forehead’ from the media. The Old Guard simply will not learn and must be gently escorted to the sidelines asap.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The way things are going somehow a US Senator is the de facto Speaker of the House and a housewife in a distant state nearly totally controls the agenda of both parties with tweets and Facebook posts. If you submitted this as the plot of a political novel, you'd be laughed out of the publisher's office or thrown out by security.