[DesScorp]

"Voting one's conscience is now treachery?"

In this time of war, if your conscience puts people in office that lead to defeat, then your conscience sucks.

[Unknown Pundit]

Whatever. If it was so important for the Republicans to keep the majority, why did they fumble the ball, so to speak, on so many no-brainer issues? As I said in another post, the Republicans didn't spend their political capital, they squandered it, and they lost.