I will say this in defense of the old Klothesline: he can play the fiddle better than me... and Laura Ingraham's lute-enhanced version of his senate floor Chaucer reading was - amazingly - simultaneously humorous and soporific.
Hey, look at it this way, we're saving money if he remains in office...we don't have to pay him retirement and pay another to fill his seat! Just fiscally responsible voters...bahaa!