Posted on 06/29/2018 1:41:41 PM PDT by cotton1706
I have no news story to link to here. To the contrary, I haven’t seen this question asked once in the flood of coverage since Kennedy’s announcement yesterday. So let’s ask it.
With McCain out, Senate Republicans have zero margin for error on the nomination. It’s 50/49. Either Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski — or anti-Trumpers Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, both of whom are retiring — could sink the nominee if Democrats hang together. And they will, I think. The Democratic base will get so hot over this that Manchin and the rest of the red-staters will hang back to see what Republicans are doing. If Collins or anyone else makes some disapproving noises that imperil the nominee, pressure from the left on Manchin et al. to vote no and kill the nomination will be enormous. It’s easy to imagine red-state Dems supporting a nominee who’s going to be confirmed anyway on a party-line Republican vote. It’s almost unimaginable that they’d *rescue* a nominee who’s headed for defeat due to a Republican split.
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And the governor is currently in a primary fight with Ken Bennett, who has made McCain's successor a campaign issue. So if McCain resigns and Ducey appoints another McCain, he's toast in the August primary, and he's not doing too well anyway (see below link).
So look for McConnell pressuring McCain to come up with some other acceptable appointment other than his wife or daughter, so he can resign and McConnell will have another vote in the senate.
Stubborn, selfish oligarch McCain!
Maybe, the decision will be made by the Almighty!
I think it’s not going to be an issue. It looks increasingly unlikely McCain will last out the summer. I don’t expect the final vote until early Fall.
No.
He’s a Chicago voter. He’s been dead for two months.
He will be pushing daises by the time they vote.
My hunch is that he will come in at the 11th hour (if he makes it that long) and vote yea so he can be remembered as the guy who saved the country (by having a strong supreme court majority). He’s got that kind of ego.
How much time does McCain have before he departs this mortal coil? The vote won’t happen unti at least September.
Or he could vote no so he can be remembered as the guy who preserved bipartisanship. You never know.
He could be in a vegetative state on life support and no one would move to have him declared incompetent.
Then put a replacement in.
Where has he been? He is a camera hog. He must be on life support until Romney wins in the senate so mittens will take his place as the no vote for anything Trump.
Will he last the weekend? My bladder may need emptied if he doesn’t go soon. Then I’ll have to get back in line for the post interment festivities.
This not a disease that leaves people in long term comas. He’s dying. Let him be for the little time he has left.
No, the old traitor wants to stab US in the back one more time.
Hell come in the 11.9th hour and vote to kill babies.
He’s an evil man and his inner demons are showing.
iows, let the pubs know they have one less senate vote, or not, depending on who is put up.
Maybe he’ll die by then and we will have a replacement that faces election in the near future.
McCain would crawl from his death bed to D.C. to vote NO on anything that might help Trump.
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