Yes, yes, they're tough guys who are forcing the entire government to come to a screeching halt because they ar so crazy. But really, they're just a bunch of wimps:

A number of Republican senators Tuesday either didn’t know or wouldn’t say if they consider the Voting Rights Act to be constitutional, even though many of them voted to reauthorize it in 2006 and the Supreme Court is currently considering whether to invalidate a key section of it.

As they entered and exited weekly party luncheons Tuesday afternoon, I and other reporters asked many GOP senators if they consider a centerpiece of the law, which was battered by conservative justices during Supreme Court oral arguments last week, should be upheld. Every one of them dodged the questions, some more artfully than others.

Read the whole thing. There are a bunch of them pretending they haven't given it a moment's worth of thought because, you know, they're just a bunch of old country Senators and they don't know anything about that Constitution. Which is ridiculous. Normally, they don't have any problem issuing an opinion on whether laws are constitutional.

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Suddenly they're all tongue tied and it's none of their business?

They know they are on the wrong side of this with the public and they don't want it to spill over on them. They're happy to have the "activist Supreme Court judges" take the heat for them. Cowards.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/republicans-are-cowards-part-367.html