The dark, fetid environment in which the RGS microbe multiplies

The US Senate is still the main repository for Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome.  So while that Tennessee newspaper is justifiably outraged that Lamar Alexander voted yay on the EPA's smokestack-scrubber rules, he was one of four ostensible Pubs (others: Kelly Ayotte, Scott Brown, Collins and Snowe) to join the Freedom-Haters in so voting.