Al Franken: “I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Veterans' Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate…”

I think what McConnell was worried about is that this is a game of chicken and McConnell blinked because Democrats could have just changed the rules.

I don`t think you can overstate it. I think Judge Luttig said that still presents a clear and present danger.

I mean, they basically just announced that they`re kind of crazy. I mean, no one can look at that and go that was legitimate political discourse gouging out the eyes of police which Capitol police they did, police lost their fingers. They…

You`re right, we started getting these tea party types, including Rand, and it was -- it was very upsetting, of course. Now, they did very quickly shift to opposing the Affordable Care Act and, of course, when they finally saw what the…