Reply #20: It was not politically possible prior to the Dem victory

[Oak2004]

They'd have been staked out in the sun and left to die by their own party. And they'd never have been able to enter or vote on a motion before they'd be shoved off the scene because their party leaders would have stopped any such effort cold. Keep in mind the persuadable and pressurable ones are not among the recent party leadership, and nobody in Washington is going to commit political suicide for no net gain.

We need to give them cover (see here for an explanation) and we need to make the crimes of their president/vice president widely known and understood by their electorate in all their gory detail, so that their votes become justifiable to their constituencies.