[SoFloFreeper]

Look, if Arlen Sphincter had a spine, he would have ignored the request for hearings or would've had them in closed session, not this dog and pony show.

OTOH, the 'rats are going to give us juicy fodder for the elections in eight months. :) So something good will come out of it.

[defconw]

Yep that's why Specter is doing it, to shut the Dem's up and to allow them to make even bigger donkey's of themselves.