the filibuster explained -- (you'll love this)

from townhall.com:

This drama is put on for the sake of three audiences: conservative activists, the public, and the Republican senators. Activists wanted to see action, and this morning they are rallying. Free Republic, a right-wing online forum, had over 2,000 posts to about the marathon by midnight, six hours in. Representatives from dozens of groups with an interest of the issue filled the Senate galleries all through the night and overflowed into the hallways and stairwells. Others have been broadcasting over the Internet for hours to thousands of listeners. Still others are holding hourly press conferences elsewhere in the Capitol. The filibuster issue has a momentum that until yesterday would have been unimaginable.


It’s spilled over into the mainstream. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News are abuzz. So is the radio, and that will only pick up during drive time. The filibusters are already on the front page of plenty of newspapers (well, not the New York Times) and will be the lead topic today on almost every talk radio show. All of this matters. While polls show that the public strongly supports simple up-or-down votes for judicial nominees, few outside of Washington are aware of the extent and uniqueness of the Democrats’ current obstructionism. If the current coverage is any indication of the way this will play throughout the day and tomorrow, a lot of Americans could have a changed opinion of the Senate Democrats by the weekend.

(OR NOT, OBVIOUSLY!)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Grossman20031113.shtml

I would not doubt it.

I bet I could generate 2000 posts on Free Republic in WAY less time than that.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder