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They won’t stop!

Bill Frist may have given their school a lot of money to put his name on a building. But these students at Princeton won’t stop filibustering Frist.

They’ve been going now for going on two days and much of it has been done in the rain.

As we told you on Tuesday, students at Princeton University are holding their own filibuster outside the campus’s Frist Campus Center, reading from phone books, judicial nomination dossiers, Dante, the Bible, whatever they can get their hands on, all to protest Sen. Frist’s effort to abolish the filibuster with the transparently ridiculous claim that the judicial filibuster is unconstitutional.

In fact, with some shoe-leather and handiwork and by begging for back-up batteries from fellow students, they’ve managed to put up an outdoor Frist filibuster webcam.

I’m watching them right now and so can you.

As of about 1:17 AM, I’m watching and one student has just handed off the megaphone to another. And now she’s reading from some unknown document, putting her voice on the line to say that there are some things more important than Bill Frist’s desperate desire to run for president in 2008.

Well, I’ll try not to let the emotion of the moment get the better of me as I watch these idealistic young worthies talk all night long. But stop by the webcam and see what they’re doing. And maybe somebody should send them some batteries. Or a long cord. Or some sandwiches …

Who’ll be the first pol to stop by the podium and get in on the act? Is Rush Holt in the district?

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