[Tonytitan]

...but the Senate is too polite to one another. They are all in the club.

Tell that to Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. They seemed to have dispensed with their legendary collegiality at his hearings.

[COBOL2Java]

Tell that to Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. They seemed to have dispensed with their legendary collegiality at his hearings.

Apples and oranges. Sessions wants to leave the Senate treehouse, so now "The Club" is free to throw acorns at him. You could have asked Senator John Tower in 1989.