[gov_bean_ counter]

Idiots, but they have not choice. Since the next nominee is going to be a minority female, they can't be seen filibustering an African-American or Hispanic after having given a couple of white guys a pass.

Now they can go to the Moveon crowd and say at least they gave it a chance but couldn't get the rest of the party to follow along.

[Howlin]

The most beautiful part of this is that Kerry, never one to shy away from a TV mike, took this on from OUTSIDE the country.

The "real" Democrats -- and you know there are some (I bet Robert Byrd is FURIOUS about this) -- will NEVER forget Kerry did this -- he's DEAD now; they will simply ignore him and he'll die on the vine from lack of attention.

And she was STUPID enough to let some of her staff read DU and took the dang bait!

Friend, we couldn't have written this better ourselves.

If we've been good little boys and girls, this might turn into a "two-fer."