Marathon is Backfiring

That 168-4 number is being used as an Iron Hammer against the republicans.

Praise be! Expose the haters for what they are!

It does seem more and more like the Republicans are adopting a policy of whatever we believe must be the case. I mean there are so many holes in their claims about these judges (or Iraq or the Bush Budget), that you wonder if they even see them or if they just don't care.

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They asked for this "debate" and the Dems have blasted them several new ones.

The repuke talking points are insipid, spun, hypocritical, and are enraging the Dems (finally) who are blowing them out of the fricking water.

Fun to watch some of it.

Mary Landrieu was on fire and ripped them and King George from stem to stern.

Not Democratic! He's said it at least twice. Grrrrrrr

is so freaking juvenile and unbecoming.

This morning on NPR they had a clip of him repeatedly saying he COULDN'T WAIT for the chance to GET HIS ARMS around a Democratic president!?! For retribution, that is to block nominations. The disgusting hypocrite conveniently ignores what he and his ilk did to the last Democratic president.

Interesting Freudian word choice IMO-- he secretly lusted for the Big Dog (maybe that explains all the man-on-dog references in his goofy interview last fall?)

He was tasked with delivering Pennsylvania in 2004. If you take Philly you take PA., so he tried to nail the incumbent D with an FBI
wiretap (no charges,recent install,putty still wet). It failed (backfired actualley). I hope his bosses are keeping track.

I think the Dems have done an excellent job of postign counter arguments and making a case that this marathon is sad abuse of power when so much else needs accomplished.

However, tune in to your local media. They, as the Repugglies suspected, are using the soundbite prepared and scripted for them by Frist. Damn Dems are stopping progress. They are thwarting the Consitution with their filibustering. Might give a 5 second clip to Harkin with his sign (and I love him, but it waqsn't the best for a sound bite.), or a weak rebuttal.

The Dems have done admirably, the Repugs lost this round, but the media snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by their lazy and biased reporting.

I do hope your local mileage has differed, but what little national news I have seen hasn't been great.

I was watching the Daily Show last night, usually a moment of sanity in an otherwise conservative-schlock-filled day, and I was disappointed by Jon Stewart's representation of the Senate idiocy. He placed the blame on Senators (not Republican Senators) for the filibuster (not the insistence on a 30-hour blame-fest). If this is how it gets presented, it will be those who filibuster (i.e. the Dems) who take the fall for this. Sure, every clip of Dems from the floor will show them trying in vain to do regular business while the Repubs ignore it, but how many of those clips will people actually see on the mainstream media?

I'm worried that this will be just one more Republican outrage that gets blamed on the Democrats, like the oh-so-controversial memo which revealed the Democrats' desire to force Republicans to do their jobs.

--in the interest of full disclosure, I posted this same comment earlier in another thread--

they are making the proverbial spectacle of themselves, no? F***ing idiots.

During Clinton's appointments? Be an interesting comparison.

Those are the numbers I heard talked about yesterday. The fact that 63 were blocked in committee means that they never had to come up for a vote, so they fit into the Republicans line of "we never did anything like this before." I just can't figure out how those other 6 fit into their line of denying they are guilty of the same thing.

Yea!

Are they going to try again?