I know that there has been lots and lots of good legislation passed in the Senate over the course of the last year. Most of it hasn't gone anywhere because the Republicans filibuster it over and over again. And not just the big stuff... even littler things like Amtrak funding gets stuck by the roadblock. And the News Anchors keep droning that "The Democrats failed" to do this or that.

And everyone thinks it's the Democrats fault.

Because no one outside the beltway knows that the Republicans are filibustering.

Because no one on the 6 O'Clock News is telling them.

And every American knows what a filibuster looks like, don't they? It looks like Jimmy Stewart, sweating and raging and losing his voice. It looks like exhausted sausages reading the D.C. phone book at 3am, with everyone else sitting there, bleary eyed.

C'mon Harry! Make those obstructionists do it out in public. Make them do it long enough that the media HAS to come around. Make them do it long enough that the media has to explain it a hundred different ways. The have to fill the air time, you know. Make the media explain it until everyone understands exactly WHAT the Republicans are objecting to.

Health Care for poor children.

Time at home for our exhausted troops.

An end to that God awful war.

When you force the media to explain it, Americans will understand just exactly what has been the problem all this year.

Please Senator Reid, .. Don't allow anymore proforma filibusters.

Best Regards
The Weary Democrat.