Wonkette’s been running a funny blog series called Congressional Catfight, imagining fake face-offs between House members, but today brought an actual catfight in the Senate, between divas Arlen Specter and Russ Feingold over gay marriage.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Thursday, after a shouting match that ended when one Democrat strode out and the Republican chairman bid him “good riddance.”