Black Hole

Think Progress is keeping close tabs on the filibuster debate in the Senate, as you would imagine. They're a good place to bookmark for one-stop-shopping on this matter.

I loved this sentence uttered by Bill Frist, which they've saved for posterity. It's a sentence so dense, so senseless, so packed full 'o' crap, that light itself cannot even escape:

The president, the um, in response, uh, the Paez nomination - we'll come back and discuss this further. Actually I'd like to, and it really brings to what I believe - a point - and it really brings to, oddly, a point, what is the issue. The issue is we have leadership-led partisan filibusters that have, um, obstructed, not one nominee, but two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, in a routine way.

Whoah! Did you catch all that?

Let me back up a little: I strongly recommend Think Progress (link always in the right column), which is the blog of the lefty/pinko/commie American Progress Action Fund (read: liberal think tank). They have a way of illuminating issues in an EZ to comprehend, ultra-concise manner. The site is well organized and even fun to read. A lot of lefty blabbermouths and hysterics could learn a lot from them.