Dems rally around the clock to save filibuster (Stanford students)

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<snip> The participants are protesting the efforts of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to change Senate rules to prohibit Democrats from using the filibuster to block President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees. <snip>

“There have been so many people asking about it and signing up, so we decided to continue it for an extra day,” said freshman Debashish Bakshi, a member of the Stanford Democrats who helped man the filibuster’s table yesterday.

The Stanford filibuster is modeled after a similar protest at Princeton, Frist’s alma mater, which has garnered national media attention. <snip>

While the Stanford students cannot boast the 384 hours logged by their Princeton peers, they have already passed the marks set by protesters at both Harvard and UC Berkeley, who ended their filibusters on schedule, at 25 and 26 hours, respectively. <snip>

http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=17331&repository=0001_article

[Cha]

1. This is HUGE that somebody

cares ENOUGH to protest about the filibuster..way out there in California, too!

[0007]

2. I love it!

[lovuian]

3. This kids know we are fighting for freedom from a dictatorship!!!

the filabuster has been in the Congress rules for years... Bush needs to deal with it!!!

[NuttyFluffers]

4. OMG that is sooo coool!

i totally want to start a filibuster. gonna gather all my buddies, dress up in aristocratic finest, and go read Victorian vampire porn aloud for hours!

... but wait, in san francisco or berkeley it wouldn't be out of place at all. no one would bat an eye. maybe we can act it out... :+

[Imagevision]

5. WE really need to get behind this one bigtime!

Pensions going south - 2.7 trillion cuts in medicaid-Medicare last week, deep cutbacks to unempolyment insurance? While defense spending continues to go thru the roof- giving Halliburton that 72 million dollar bonus last week...and of course gas prices at the pumps will have to average $2.50+ because of summer travel? --

Bush is bringing this country to its knees.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Thank you, Gen Y -- you rock! NT

[enigmatic]

7. I love this

Kudos to them.

[salin]

8. Makes me proud

were I still in the area - I would have gone out to give them a hand. Looks like it was scheduled to continue into friday - wonder how long they actually continued...