[willyboyishere]

Right---but,also, what a shame Patty Murray was not Dem Minority leader, and we could've had double-barreled resignations in the same week.

[aristeides]

Patty Murray may not be RAT minority leader, but she was in the last campaign the chairman of the RATs' senatorial campaign committee. (Frist was her Republican counterpart.) She did not do a successful job of work, so she may not have any future in the leadership.