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I stand corrected. al-Gore (and the still duller Kerry four years later) accused Bush of trying to appoint justices like Scalia and Thomas, both much loathed (by the pro-death movement) for their vociferous opposed to the pro-death agenda and uncompromising pro-life stance.

AL-GORE: "And Governor Bush has declared to the anti-choice [or, more accurately, pro-death] group that he will appoint justices in the mold of Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who are known for being the most vigorous opponents of a woman's [so-called] right to choose [to commit feticide with impunity, and consequently advocates of the right of innocent babies to live]." (I added the bracketed information for clarity and context.)

Now, we all know that al-Gore never told a lie, subject of course to the typical proviso of the Standard of Truth, by which "it all depends on what the definition of the word 'is' is"--we should interpret "is" so broadly as possibly to mean "is not."

Senators get paid as professional athletes. Their sport is filibustering--giving extremely long-winded, extraordinarily pointless, sleep-inducing speeches intended to put their colleagues (and any insomniac Americans tuning to C-SPAN to cure their troubles) to utter boredom. It's a complex sport with draconian rules intended to impede and obstruct the President and a bizarre scoring system.