Romantic notions about filbusters aside, current Senate procedures don't require a filibustering party to talk around the clock. They simply need to indicate that they are engaging in filibuster.

The Senate Majority Leader can require a "traditional" filibuster, but that requires a quorum to hang around and listen to it.

And who wants that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster#Procedural_filibuster

...if they were forced to accept whatever health care plan they ultimately come up with as their own personal plan.

Of course, that would first require them to vote away the terrific health care that they, and only they, enjoy.

Not gonna happen.

...all of the following:

• People who think Obama is a Muslim

• People who think he was born in Kenya

• People who think Sarah Palin would make a good president

• People who think allowing the sick to see a doctor is a bad idea

• People who think that global warming is a hoax

• People who think Jesus Christ will return in their lifetime

• People who think the world will end in the next 50 years

I'd take this with a grain of salt, but Fox will undoubtedly make it the lead today.

Why not agree to be a one-term president if it means convictions for Bush and Cheney and returning our country to one that respects both the law and the Constitution?

Nothing to add. The Internets just make life better.

Of course the Left would. For 8 YEARS they obsessed about Bush's National Guard record.

And for good reason - it appears that Bush never completed his service. No one has yet come forward to offer proof, or even claim to remember, seeing W serve in Alabama, despite large offers of either cash or charitable contributions to anyone who can provide same.

Bush can't prove that he served in Alabama because he wasn't there.

Apples and oranges.

...is why the Right hates him so much. He's continuing Bush's policies which the Right supported, so why don't they think he's the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?

...that none of these weirdos considered, even for a minute, that George W. Bush might have been the antichrist.

I fell asleep during the first two parts of the trilogy, and reading The Hobbit in high school was torturous.

If the films don't get released, I'll be fine with it.

...now if they could just get rid of Cornyn, and Hatch, and Inhofe...

Fine. I don't want the government to pay for preemptive wars or executions anymore.

Make it so.

...but I don't know anyone who either does or did. They were just the weird shoes I saw people wearing at the mall or the airport. They were so ugly that it never occurred to me to be particularly inquisitive about them. Rather, I just wondered what in the hell was wrong with the wearers.

Having read this article, I now know 500% more about Crocs than I did ten minutes ago.

That information, and $4, will get me a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

They'll do something about it when monkeys fly out of Harry Reid's sycophantic butt.

If anything he (Kristol) is too steadfast, still insisting that Palin deserves to be considered a serious candidate for the presidency and that her qualifications for that position are comparable to those of Barack Obama.

There's a HUGE difference between Palin's qualifications and Obama's qualifications. Obama has six months' experience as President of the United States.

Palin has squat.

Yesterday, my family and I announced a decision that is in Alaska’s best interest and it always feels good to do what is right.

I have no doubt that her resignation is in Alaska's best interest.

I've tried this argument, and it's always countered with, "Who cares? They're terrorists!"

You cannot reason with the Right.

2. when do the men start getting ranked the same way?

When women start watching televised sports in sufficient numbers to justify doing so.

Until then, what men want to see pretty much controls televised sports.

In light of today's ruling, it's a bit difficult -- actually, impossible -- for a rational person to argue that Sotomayor's Ricci decision places her outside the judicial mainstream...it's definitively unreasonable to claim that her Ricci ruling places her on some sort of judicial fringe.

Nah, for the wingnuts, this one won't even be hard. I'll put on my Rush Limbaugh hat and see what I can come up with:

She voted one way on this issue, and the Republican-dominated Supreme court disagrees with her. Therefore, she is a flaming liberal who is clearly out of touch with the mainstream.

There you go. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

They're always complaining about "liberal media bias." Any reasonable person would think that Republicans would welcome the return of the Fairness Doctrine so that they could get equal time.

"Please fire David Letterman now for his unkind remarks about the Palin family so we can go back to our fulltime job: Calling President Obama a Marxist, Socialist and Communist while mentioning that his wife looks like a gorilla."

These people have priorities, you know.

...we need to do the following:

1. Nuke every other country on Earth, save Israel.

2. Require every American to be a Republican.

3. Torture those who resist.

Only then can we be free.

...not everyone who appears in porn films for a living is a porn star. They are actors.

Darren James is a porn actor. Jenna Jameson is a porn star.

It's no different from Hollywood, where Brad Pitt is a movie star and JK Simmons, however gifted he may be, is an actor.

...makes me wonder if any of the people who constantly sing his praises were actually there for his train wreck of an administration.

The guy napped for eight years while his cronies were out committing crimes and creating then-unprecedented debt. Twenty nine members of his administration were actually convicted of crimes.

Convicted! Republicans! Really! It happened! You can look it up!

Or am I the only one who remembers this?