With Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement canceling a portion of the Senate’s usual August recess, hope springs eternal that the Republican Senate will one day start working.

For months, conservatives have been pleading with the Kentucky Republican leader to work five days a week, and thus keep Democrats off the campaign trail, and cancel their monthlong August break, in order to confirm President Trump’s key nominees and actually keep some of their campaign promises: repealing Obamacare, defunding Planned Parenthood, and prioritizing border security, among them.