Here’s what everyone is missing and it’s not that both are brain dead. And I didn’t know until tonight that not only did Feinstein have shingles but she also has encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain! But here’s what they are all missing. In the senate because of the narrow Dem majority, committees are divided with a one person majority in favor of the Dems. Thus if either of these two vegetables are replaced then their replacements would have to get voted on to their committees. And as I’ve previously ranted about that would require a senate vote which the republicans could block because the Dems don’t have the votes to get by the 60 votes to move the vote forward. So replacing them would give the Republicans the ability to stop anything from any committee that they are now on from going forward. Obviously the Judiciary Committee that Feinstein is on is the most important because republicans could prevent all of Magoo’s judicial nominees from ever seeing the light of day. And I don’t know what other committees they are on, but Republicans could prevent any legislation that they don’t like from ever getting out of committee. That’s why they continue to keep weekend at Bernie’s senators from being replaced.

BTW in case you forgot, committee members are usually confirmed by a unanimous vote at the beginning of the session. However if any single senator objects then the person objected to must survive a full senate vote that would require a 60 vote majority to get to the floor.