I will just state up front that, consistent with every political fiber of my being since 2014, there is no possible circumstance imaginable under which John Cornyn ever gets a vote of mine. I also find it ‘interesting’ that this topic comes up during the same week history buries forever the ‘help Iran get the bomb’ deals of the Obama-Biden era (and the enabling that went with it from the Failure Theater kids) get shit-canned forever…but still: As I said before, history tells us there is always at least one moron like Bob Corker in the crowd. I’m keeping my eye on a true Texas moron: John Cornyn.

So a couple of days before Cornyn battled Paxton to essentially a 41%-41% tie – burning through something on the order of $120M in the process – in the scheduled primary only to earn a trip to a run-off, I made note of The Predictable Shelf-Life on Cornyn’s Modified Limited Hangout on the Save America Act. Now it turns out that link of Cornyn’s immediate future to the fate of the SAVE ACT wasn’t all that odd after all…

Ken Paxton Offers to Drop Out of Race if Thune and Cornyn Will Eliminate Filibuster and Pass SAVE Act

This is a pretty solid position by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who is offering to drop out of the Texas senate race if John Thune and John Cornyn will stop blocking President Trump, eliminate the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act. …

This is, of course, a safe play on Paxton’s part. The tainted blood of Failure Theater nourishes the spineless creatures of the Republican establishment and nowhere is this peacocked more than in the U.S. Senate. I don’t expect for anyone around Paxton to fall for the juvenile “if you don’t drop out we will be forced to spend another $150M to beat you and that will have negative impacts on the fall election and the remainder of Trump’s second term” type of rationalization (Did they pull that idiot Corker out of retirement to help with that one?) and I expect Paxton to stay in – and win – the run-off…and then the election this fall. (For those not of the area and who are getting an earful otherwise, rest assured that there will NOT be a Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas in 2026 no matter how this plays out. That is all just silly talk.)

But, regarding Cornyn v. Paxton and as surprises continue to pop up around every turn of Trump 2.0, we will just have to wait and see how this whole thing sorts out.