Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is planning an "all-nighter" to protest the Republicans' moves to require 60 votes to amend the 2008 Defense Appropriations Act. In reality, these 60 vote maneuvers are filibusters, but the media started referring to them as mere procedural votes after the Democrats started to use them during the judicial confirmation fights over the past few years. In fact, as the Constitution states that the only votes that need a three-fifths majority to pass are treaties and budgets, the tactics employed by the Republicans now have more of an established constitutional pedigree than did the Democrats' obstruction of judges then. But no matter, a filibuster is a filibuster -- and up until recently if you engaged in one it meant endless debate until the Majority Leader called it off. So I say, bring on the beds!

But the best part of this story is the admission of one Democrat that it is all a publicity stunt:

"Is this a publicity stunt? Yes," a senior Democratic aide told FOX News. "This is the only way we know to highlight their complete ignorance of the will of the people!"

Sorry unnamed aide: wars aren't fought by polls (or pols). I wonder if Harry can get the old USA Network duo of Rhonda Shear and Gilbert Gottfried to host!