Mark Tapscott has some excellent coverage of Powerline’s Paul Mirgengoff and his exchange with Senators Durbin and Kennedy. Looks like the “great orators” get flustered when they have to go off script. According to a veteran Senate GOP staffer:

“The mainstream news media that covers Congress is tightly controlled by the House and Senate press galleries and they would never be so aggressive in pressing a Member of Congress. So this was big, it was unprecedented to have a blogger asking such questions. We need more bloggers up here asking questions because they aren’t controlled by the galleries.”