Tired of waiting ....
I'm posting this Senate development and you can't stop me.
I'll let the dean of the Senate Press Corps give you the low-down, but here's the best line from Dewhurst's mea culpa letter.
(I guess technically it was a someone else's culpa, since Dewhurst says he didn't write it.)
"While I stand by what I, the Secretary of the Senate, the Parliamentarian, and some press observed yesterday, the Senator is a personal friend of mine and goes hunting with me each fall. We were planning on letting him use a rifle this year, so I'm especially interested in Whitmire being real friendly with me before our hunting trip in October."
Yeah, those two have a special bond. Remember it was Whitmire who came back from Albuquerque to reinstate the quorum, save Dewhurst from having to break the 2/3 rule (which he appears ready to do today) and pass a redistricting plan - risking his friendship with Mario.