Now, do we have any internal experiments with letting the Laissez Fairey loose with her invisible hand, with tax cuts, spending cuts, a shrinking government and an expanding economy as a result? Like, in Kansas?
You are obsessed with Kansas lol. The replacement nomination seems to put the Republicans in congress into their usual and familiar position, that is, they are screwed either way things go. If they block a liberal nomination they may lose their jobs. If they approve a liberal nomination they may lose their jobs. McConnell seems to understand that this is existential for Republicans. I must say that I sense some sand in this old boy and he certainly wasted no time taking a position but he did say "should". He said the American people "should" have a say. He did not say the American people "will" have a say so to my thinking he left himself some wiggle room.
Perhaps. But it's important that the Kansas example not go unnoticed. Brownback's experiment is very, very clean for the social or economic sciences. Not perfect, but as close as those disciplines can get. Large population sample, internally isolated, our own people, our own language, with neighboring states not participating in the experiment serving as controls. The hypothesis is tested: tax cuts and government spending cuts in a demand-side recession environment will expand supply, business will boom, thus increasing employment and revenues (aka voodoo economics). That has not happened. Sadly, and as gwb mentioned suicide rates in the Scandinavian countries, the suicide rate has spiked in Brownback's Kansas, too.