As the dispute rumbles on, they might ponder the fate of their Republican colleague who also allied himself with the "heritage" wing of his party: Pete Wilson, the governor of California who backed the anti-immigrant Proposition 187 and found that the California Republican Party was destroyed in the next election.
There was a piquant, or perhaps unbelievable, moment around 8.30 this morning: flames were destroying the heritage wing of the Taj Mahal hotel, shots were being heard, chaos mingled with shock on the streets outside and a spokesman for the government in Mumbai told CNN that the "situation is under control".
They decided to shut the Palace heritage wing, for the first time in 106 years.
Earlier this year, Taj did manage to reopen parts of the heritage wing.
One thousand people are together restoring 300,000 square feet of the heritage wing.
And by April 2010, IHCL says the entire heritage wing will be open to the public.
But one year after Krishna Kumars assurances, the rest of the heritage wing remains closed.
What if instead they took this opportunity to restore the entire heritage wing, much in need of restoration?
While Tatas bust was left untouched, most of the rest of the Palace heritage wing was decimated on 26/11 and the days after.
LTW, a design firm based in Singapore that also worked on Tajs restaurants, had finished a renovation of the heritage wing just six years earlier.
Meanwhile, IHCL vice chairman R.K. Krishna Kumar promised that in one years time, the heritage wing would be "fully restored to all its glory.
