The good old days of wacky parliamentary bullshit are long gone in the Senate — you don’t even have to actually filibuster to filibuster any more, how lame is that — so we were kinda half-heartedly excited for this all-night session thing that Harry Reid was going to force everyone to do. Then he pussed out and they set up cots and he changed the times of the roll-call vote so everyone could get a couple hours of sleep, stripping his useless political stunt of what little slightly-comprehensible symbolism it possessed. After all, if we could’ve forced Orrin Hatch to stay up all night, we might’ve finally won (lost?) in Iraq. Now, nothing.

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