Despite extending the unprecedented 30-hour talkathon on the Senate floor by more than nine hours, Republicans failed to force a vote on President Bush's three judicial nominees deemed too conservative for the American mainstream by Democrats. Republicans launched the round-the-clock debate Wednesday night to counter Democratic filibusters on the nominations of Texas judge Priscilla Owen and California judges Carolyn Kuhl and Janice Rogers Brown. At the outset, Democrats warned the Republican tactic wouldn't work. "I'm terribly disappointed that we are spending the time of this institution on something like this when we need to be spending what little time...
