++Ed Kilgore warns again that it is premature to posit what the lame duck session will entail. Speculation has run rampant from Marco Rubio trying to gut the "risk-corridors" for health insurance companies and thereby cripple Obamacare to fights over the successor to Eric Holder.
++Kilgore says again that we might not know who will control the Senate until January. Independent candidates in Kansas and South Dakota have said they will wait until then to decide with which party to caucus. Kilgore, always attuned to the vagaries of the South,point to run offs in Georgia and Louisiana in the first week of December.
++Conventional wisdom is that Republicans will win these run-offs. But Kilgore points to Mary Landrieu winning the last Louisiana run-off, even though the fate of the Senate was already known. But this year if it is unclear,we will be treated to a flood of GOP money and a massive GOTV campaign by Democrats.
++And all this creates a cloud over the lame duck session. I think we will actually see the possibility of a government shutdown again. I also do not see any war resolution on Syria.
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