and you can read that letter on my web site. she could have done that easily. easily. it wouldn't have been in violation of anything. but she wanted to hot shot at. grandstand it for her own constituency. you know what she was doing. you have been in politics long enough. and they caught on to it. this was demeaning. she didn't have to do that. you could of got your point across. >> you know what, that is one way of approaching it. i think that coretta scott king is an american icon. >> bill: sure. >> her husband was the leading civil rights -- >> bill: that doesn't mean you violated senate rule. you can direct people to -- >> i don't think she was violating the senate rule. >> bill: okay, but that is not your call because that is a call that was made by the senate. >> we know people in power don't always make calls that are -- >> bill: i don't mind you criticizing mccall but there wasn't really much argument from the left on it because the role, as i just read, is pretty explicit. >> i think the point here is not