It's happening
right now.
With coffee and cots, U.S. senators began on Wednesday what promised to be the longest nonstop debate in their chamber in a decade -- this one on President Bush's four blocked judicial nominees.
"We are launching a historic justice-for-justice marathon to confirm the president's judicial nominees and highlight the Democrats' partisan obstructionism," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican. "All we ask is a vote."
But Republicans were not expected to get a vote during the talkathon unless Democrats fall asleep and fail to oppose a procedural bid to confirm nominees without objection.
"We'll be there to object, believe me," vowed Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat.