Kerry organizing filibuster: What's the real story?
This whole thing may have been part of Harry Reid's plan all along:
- Call for a filibuster,
- Force vulnerable Republicans like Chaffee to vote up-or-down on cloture (either way he pisses off RI voters),
- Get another few days of us-versus-them speechifyng,
- Then release the Democratic members of the Gang of 14 to vote yes on cloture.