Originally Posted by
guppie
I’ll take the win. But we need to get on board with this MEC quick fix to TA1, vs a blow-up/ re-boot. Come November, the party of Big Business will prolly take the reins. All it will take is a 1500 hour rule modification and a retirement age bump….. our leverage will vanish like a fart in the wind.
Unless the recent SCOTUS ruling (which we're not going to discuss here) changes the election landscape I think that's pretty obvious. But I think you're right, my wife was hugely PO'ed about SCOTUS but not nearly as PO'ed as she is about all the other crap going on. She's a lifelong liberal Dem, voted for Trump last time and would do it again if he ran again... she's going to be straight ticket red in Nov. So if she's any indication the economy, crime and all the other social issues are what matter this year.
An opposition congress might well add age 67 to the budget reauthorization just on principle, or maybe even do a stand-alone bill if they think it will get some attention (or like you said if A4A or RAA wants it for some reason).