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Rick Scott Has a Crazy Idea: Maybe the GOP Senate Should Actually Do Something Before Handing Democrats the Keys

The Republican Senate majority arrived in Washington on Monday night. The plan, according to Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, was to leave Tuesday.

Twenty-five lifetime judicial appointments are sitting in the pipeline. The SAVE America Act — voter ID legislation that could reshape election integrity for a generation — hasn't been brought to a vote. And the Senate's plan was to grab their coats.

"We're still a majority. Are we going to get Trump's judges done?" Scott asked on Breitbart News Daily on Tuesday. It's not a rhetorical question. The GOP holds the Senate for approximately two more months before Democrats take over. Every day spent on recess is a day those 25 judgeships go unfilled.

Scott didn't sugarcoat the midterm results. "I mean, what a terrible night," he said. But his response wasn't to sulk. It was to point out that a terrible night doesn't erase the fact that Republicans still control the chamber right now, today, with a working majority and a confirmation calendar that isn't going to fill itself.

"Oh, you know we got here last night, and the plan is we're going to leave today," Scott told Breitbart. The frustration was barely contained. Senators flew to D.C., showed up for what amounted to a group therapy session about the election results, and then prepared to scatter back to their home states.

Meanwhile, government funding expires December 11th. The permitting bill remains unfinished. Scott ticked through the list of what could actually get done if anyone bothered to stay: judges confirmed, voter ID passed, a budget that balances. "These are things that we ought to do," he said. "We are in power for two more months. Why would you not stay here?"

The counterargument — that lame-duck sessions are traditionally low-energy wind-downs — assumes the incoming majority will preserve anything the current one cares about. Democrats have already signaled they intend to block Trump's judicial nominees the moment they hold the gavel. Every judge confirmed in December is one they can't stop in January.

This is the pattern that drives conservative voters up the wall. We hand Republicans a majority. They use it cautiously, carefully, always saving the big fights for later. Then later arrives and they don't have the votes anymore. Scott is the one senator publicly saying what the base has been screaming since election night: the gavel doesn't care about your feelings. It cares about the calendar.

Twenty-five judges. The SAVE America Act. A government funding deadline in 30 days. Two months of majority power remaining.

The Senate arrived Monday night and planned to leave Tuesday.

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