As long as our troops are sweating, fighting and dying in Iraq, the Dems should NOT go on vacation. They should stay in Washington and keep the pressure up on the Republicans to end this war and get our troops out of harm’s way…

Melanie at 73 — I don’t know for certain his stance, but I do know that I’m being told by folks working on the amendment that (1) no vote should be taken for granted, so every Senator needs to be called and nudged on this and (2) the ones on the list are the ones who need a special nudge as identified by the folks working the habeas issue.

Thanks Christy – I nudged a couple of days ago. Just wondered why he was no longer on the list.

Andrea Mitchell…. [snip]

Confiction of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda in Iraq?

[my emphasis added]

HEY! Haven’t even had my cuppa yet this a.m. & i run into “MY” brand new word. And I’m already EPU’d to boot!?!
Not usin’ it in vain, I see. Bravo! Carry on troop, & thanks.

I had a fantastic night’s sleep for the 1st time in ages. Did i miss anything?

Read last night about Hojoke’s sterling urps ‘n all. Any video up yet? Couldn’t stand to do more’n read the liveblog during his live performance. He stay sober enuf to give another? Oh, SO many questions!

Boy. I really DO owe you guys bigtime!

Off to grab my cuppa & then read read read & watch w/ split-screen. Didn’ have all these fancy gadgets back when i was growin’ up. WooHoo.

Back in a sec. AND upstairs, AND downstairs…
So much to read. So little time.
dither dither….

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/e…..amp;coll=1

We shouldn’t let this one go.

Phoenix Woman @ 50

You listened to the wrong show. I listened to NPR, and they featured Democratic Senators saying “GIVE US AN UP OR DOWN VOTE!”

I do note that the media is having a much harder time with the F word than the Democrats — they’re largely refusing to admit that it’s a filibuster!

I agree that the media hasn’t used the ‘f’ word at all, but I submit that that’s the Dems responsibility to school them each and every time they go on these shows.

And yeah, I didn’t go to NPR…and neither did the vast majority of morning commuters. who Reid and co. are supposed to be educating.

How much of it is the Dems and how much of it is editing?

Over at Eschaton, one of the commenters, “Smitty W”, sez that newspaper editors don’t like the word “filibuster” and avoid it whenever possible. (He says it’s not for political reasons, but Avedon pointedly pointed out that they had no trouble with the word when it was about Bush trying to get his crappy judges past the Senate.)