Reply #10: I respect this OP also. I just disagree

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

There's paranoia in conflating what a handful of crackpots do (probably with republican funding) with the orderly representation of the elected function of the representatives of 16-17 million Democrats.

Process aside, there is an empirical question as to whether a normal roll-call makes Obama's November election more or less likely. Obama will probably study that and recognize that a normal roll-call strengthens him, not diminishes him.