At least according to Louisiana’s David Vitter.

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said Tuesday that his fellow Republican Senate colleagues are “scared to death” by President Barack Obama’s popularity.

“What’s been going on in a lot of these votes is that some folks are just scared to death quite frankly of the new president and his polling numbers and sort of holding under the table,” Vitter told radio host Laura Ingraham. An audio clip of the remark was later posted on the conservative blog Hot Air.

Vitter insisted that that “half” of the Senate Republicans are intimidated by Obama’s high approval rating, which according to the latest Gallup poll stands at 64 percent.

As evidence, he pointed at the 19 Republicans who voted to confirm Eric Holder as Attorney General. “Just look at that short list and that gives you the general sense of who I’m talking about,” he said.

The Louisiana Republican has voted against each of Obama’s appointments that was not confirmed by a voice vote.

Does that name sound familiar?  Uh huh, that’s right…he was caught with his pants down in the DC Madame scandal.  But he and his Repub collegues are playing a politically dangerous game….they are betting that the stim package will fail and give them a leg up in the next election….partisanship may be the 8oo lb gorilla in the room come next election cycle.