Dammit, we absolutely can’t assume that we’ve got 6 months available for this. We’ve got a whole lot of Democratic senators over 70, and Feinstein herself is 88 years old. If you are just going by actuarial tables the odds of someone in that group dropping dead over a 6 month period and flipping control of the Senate are way too high for comfort. We damn well better act like we’re running out of time.
