I'm on my way to lunch this afternoon in NC, and the sometimes-political, sometimes-apolitical AM talk show (Brad and Britt) runs a brief advertising clip from the morning's broadcast:
Host A - I wonder if these stupid democrats are gonna try and filibuster the Alito nomination, they're only delaying the inevitable.
Host B - They already delayed it--they delayed it for a week.
Now, this pissed me off.
Yes, the odds of successfully using the filibuster to cast BTK Sammy in with the dust bunnies of history were all but nil.
Yes, the democrats that attempted to push the filibuster knew this.
Yes, so did the rest of America.
But as a friend of mine used to be all too fond of saying on Mondays during football season, "That's why they play the games."
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