Senator Ted Stevens had a strategy to deal with the inevitable change in Senate majority power.  He teamed up with Senator Inouye D-Hawaii, and they swapped the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee for years covering each others' backs.

But wait.... Alaska had a Republican AND a Democrat on Senate Appropriations Committee.  Then we shot ourselves in the foot.  Now we have Lisa and Senator #100, both Republicans who will both be out of the majority with no power.