2 A.M. Well I was going to go to bed, but Republican Saxby Chambliss just yielded his time to
Democrat Zell Miller, and for this kind of thing Miller is a must-watch, so I'll keep going. Let me throw some random thoughts up too:
--The props the Senators use are excellent. Just now Miller had a copy of the Constitution behind him, and he looked through a magnifying glass pretending to look at various parts while saying that he searched the whole document and couldn't find anything justifying what his fellow Democrats are doing. High comedy.
--Dennis Miller was terrible on Monday Night Football, but I'm sure he would have been more entertaining than Barbara Boxer was. Too bad he wasn't serious about running.
--Some Republican (don't remember who) said that it was the first time a president's nominees have not been voted on. That is untrue--it's the first time that nominations have been filibustered. The Republicans need to get their talking points straight.
--If the nominees are so extreme, why can't the Democrats get 2 moderate Republicans to vote against them?
--Some Democrat quoted Republican Bob Smith as proof that even people on the Republicans' side think there has been filibusters on judicial nominees before. Isn't that the same Bob Smith who dropped out of the Republican Party to run for president? Does anyone think there's a good chance that Smith said what he said when he was not a Republican and angry at his former party?
--Zell Miller on the Democrats' message on rejecting Janice Brown: "Conservative African-American women need not apply." Wow.
Miller is done and so am I. Off to bed.
