Robert Novak reports that some Republicans want to shut down the Senate until November.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is being urged by colleagues to threaten to close down the Senate for the rest of the year unless Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle ends his disruptive tactics.

In addition to menacing all judicial nominations, Daschle is now preventing legislation from being sent to Senate-House conferences to resolve differences in bills passed by both Houses unless the outcome is guaranteed.

So the GOP wants to use obstruction tactics to obstruct Daschle's obstructions. I think they may be on to something here, except that I wouldn't limit it to November. Why not put the House and Senate on autopilot and go home for a few years. We have thousands and thousands of laws on the books. I think we could go a few years without passing any more. (Especially those that aren't explicitly authorized by the Constitution.) If anything comes up that needs special funding, they could always call an emergency session to authorize the funds. Other than that, think of the damage that could be prevented.