Sensitive Senate

Here, I feel compelled to rise in defense of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Or, more precisely, I rise to defend the ability of any politician, even a squawking socialist demagogue, to have her say on the floor of Congress.

In a widely covered recent kerfuffle, Warren was said to have been “silenced” by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell after violating the institution’s rules of decorum — igniting widespread rending of garments and a slew of catchy hashtags across the Twitterverse.