Please note, it is NOT a 51-49 split in the Senate, it is a 50-49 split. Senator McCain has not appeared in the chamber since last December, and may not even be able to raise his hand and wrist enough to sign a resignation letter at this point.
Is he even conscious any more? Even the most aggressive and heroic medical procedures cannot reverse the course of events.
RE: McCain
I can only surmise, based on the loss of a fellow HS classmate last year to Gilioblastoma, that McCain will not be with us much longer unless by some hook or crook, he is in the single digit percentage of victims of this horrible cancer, that survive it for more than a year. People who live for much more than a year, can be counted on the fingers of one hand and have fingers left over. So the reality is that unless we get a couple of RATs to vote yes, we can loose only one RINO. Sen. Lee says he thinks everyone in the GOP is in, and yesterday several of the RATS (McCaskill, Manchin, and one other) told Shumer what he could do with his “whipping the vote” against Kavanaugh.
McCain will vote yes. He’s already knocking on the gates of hell and is internally fighting not to go there. For McCain, voting yes for Kavanaugh is his own redemption.