‘Enhanced’ 3 a.m. session designed to break the insurgent Republicans?

Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford calls the Senate into session, tracking down sleeping senators and rousting them from their beds, just to make a point.

When they do that at Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib the Democrats call it torture, the Republicans enhanced interrogation.

Sleep deprivation is a classic technique to make the enemy crack. Those who oppose its use claim it results in false confessions and various fanciful but bogus claims, anything to get a little shuteye.

“I think it is very inappropriate and imprudent if it’s to hold us hostage here until we cave in,” said Reno state Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio.

Horsford said recalcitrant Republicans were not willing to accept a sop, I mean “generous proposal,” to reform public employee benefits.

When the “enhanced” show session ended about 4 a.m. Raggio suggested it had created  ill will and tired senators — some of whom are in their 80s and don’t like to eat dinner late, much less rise at 3 a.m. except to go the bathroom.