Instructing his colleagues to take a good, long look at what happens to consensus seekers, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) publicly displayed the impaled body of a fellow senator at the entrance to the Capitol building Thursday as a warning to anyone thinking about crossing party lines. You see this? If I even sense so much as a hint of a possibility that you might vote out of lockstep or co-sponsor a centrist bill with the opposition, I swear to God Ill slice your tongue clean out of your throat right in the middle of the rotunda, said Cornyn, gesturing to the suit-clad corpse with a bloodied wooden stake protruding from its chest and the word AISLE-CROSSER carved into its forehead. And then Ill personally see to it that youre branded, gutted, skewered, and paraded around Capitol Hill like a suckling hog. So ask yourself right now: How important is moving past party politics and reaching compromise, huh? Senate sources later confirmed that Cornyn went on to brandish a cigar cutter and remark how hard it would be to pen bipartisan legislation without any thumbs. 