Bring on the filibuster!

From Frank Rich’s column in today’s NY Times:

The G.O.P., whose ranks have now dwindled largely to whites in Dixie and the less-populated West, is not even a paper tiger — it’s a paper muskrat. James Carville is correct when he says that if Republicans actually carried out their filibuster threats on health care, it would be a political bonanza for the Democrats.

I couldn’t agree more.  I would love make these bloviating, lying, distorting, crass, politically-motivated, Obama-hating, Republicans stand up for days (make it weeks if necessary) and filibuster a healthcare reform bill.  As the time passes they will look less and less like Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” and more and more like Joe McCarthy when Joseph Welch confronted him:

“Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild...Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”