re: #297 Targetpractice

Compare the GQP, where just agreeing to sit on a committee got two Repubs reduced to unperson status, to two Dems publicly flipping off the party leadership not once but numerous times with total impunity because “ZOMG! IF YOU EVEN WAG YOUR FINGER AT THEM, THEY’LL CROSS THE AISLE AND THEN WE CAN’T SEAT ANY MORE JUDGES!!!”

Kinda overheated, but unfortunately, there’s more than a smidgen of truth in this (aggravating as it is) - not least because the dynamics of the Senate (where the balance-of-power is in a terrible equilibrium) are quite different from the House.