The Ds tried to pretend to be principled when they trotted out the phony accusations against Moore. All of a sudden real sexual abuse and assaults by Ds were revealed, with evidence. So they've placed themselves between a hammer and an anvil. They can brazen out Conyers and Franken, prove they are unprincipled to AL voters, and get hammered in AL and possibly around the country in 2018. Or they can get rid of Conyers and Franken, lose those members' seniority (at the least), and probably still lose in AL and elsewhere in 2018.