Clean CR? Magic 8-Ball Says: Fuhgeddaboudit!

If redstate.com's Erick Erickson is to be believed, Congress' brief September Sojourn in DC will be anything but the low-key and uneventful layover advertised.  Republicans have been telling themselves and the electorate that the very best thing for their mid-term prospects will be to slither in, pass a clean continuing resolution to keep things humming, then beat it out of town until election day.  For some, that will mean one more month of campaigning but for many it will mean quietly biding their time until the Magic of Gerrymandering kicks in.

No one, on either side of the aisle, or elsewhere, for that matter, is expecting that any substantive legislative work will be done to address our current foreign or domestic predicaments. There won't be any bi-partisan face-offs to enjoy but, if Erickson has a clue what he is talking about, there will almost undoubtedly be some of the intra-party histrionics that the GOP have incorporated into their workaday doings.

Intellectually, party leadership know that the best thing for Republican candidates to finish out this term will be to keep a low profile, grit their teeth, demonstrate some unity and, ideally, not remind the public and/or the media too much of past highlights of their lumbering procession toward in-the-toilet approval ratings.