essays & effluvia: The Big Filibuster Lie: "'Examine the numbers and the reality of the current Senate standoff looks quite different from the spin. On the face of it, it looks like it is the Democrats that are being stubborn by threatening to filibuster judicial nominees.

The reality: The numbers show something different, the Senate agreed to approve all but 1.5% of judicial nominees, and the Republicans are threatening to change one of the fundamental checks and balances on government to have things 100% instead of 98.5% their own way."

(Via Technorati.)