This is pretty funny. This article from Reuters manages to get through an entire article on the filibuster the Democrats are going to force senate Republicans to go through with without ever actually using the word ‘filibuster’. It’s almost a thing of beauty in its negative capacity of bamboozlement.
Some choice quotes …
U.S. Senate Democrats, hoping to raise pressure on President George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans to pull troops from Iraq, have scheduled an around-the-clock war debate starting on Tuesday.
and
Democrats have all but publicly acknowledged that they will be unable to pass their end-the-war amendment because opposition Republicans are insisting on 60 votes for a victory.
Like I said, the ploy that dare not speak its name. Who will come out for filibuster pride?
(ed.note: Thanks to TPM Reader LK whose bamboozle-o-meter was clearly working over time.)
