the idea that somehow or another there's a magic bullet or that there's, you know, the kingdom of heaven is at hand if only a senator voted this way or that way just is ahistorical. one hopes for this. one hopes we'll have a margaret chase smith moment today. i feel compelled to mention a republican senator from maine, who happened to be a woman, i don't know if you can see the relevance there or not, but margaret chase smith in 1950, just a few months after joe mccarthy started his reign of terror, laid out a speech which she called the declaration of conscien conscience, the direct case against joe mccarthy. only six senators joined senator smith in denouncing mccarthy on the early side, and mccarthy dismissed them as snow white and the six dwar fs, but we got to a better place. it took four years. how did that happen to go directly to your question?