[justshe]

LOL....thanks.

I also think there is some license being taken with 'terms' by many in the media which further confuses the issue.

[Miss Marple]

What, you mean the media is confusing things? How could this be?

HA!

[aristeides]

I think that "filibuster" is a merely colloquial term that does not appear in the Senate Rules and that does not have a legal definition. Consequently, the use of the word is not, I believe, set.