As you know if you're reading this, the first honest-to-goodness filibuster since 2005 may take place as Sen. Chris Dodd refuses to allow the Misadministration and the spineless Congress to delete the Fourth Amendment from the Constitution by fiat.
(Note to Harry Reid: filibusters are a tool to protect strongly-held minority positions. When the majority party champions a Constitutional principle supported by a strong majority of the citizenry, the majority "leader" is not supposed to set a filibuster trap for his own party.)
I hope it doesn't come to this. But if it does:
Let's help write Sen. Dodd's filibuster text!
I see people joshing about reading from the phone book and the like, but for cripes' sake! this is the BILL OF RIGHTS, not an obscure or unimportant point of law. With all the passion and talent on dKos, we should be able to come up with 240 hours of heartfelt, compelling, not to say snarky oratory, which we could forward to Dodd or one of his staffers who reads here.
I am constantly awed by the power and passion of the writing here. There should be nothing trivial or perfunctory about a filibuster to preserve rights which can be traced back to Magna Carta. If you are interested in the idea of us running up a few million words in defense of liberty, say so in the comments. If the response justifies it (rec this if you support it!) we can decide how best to take it from there to the offices of Sen. Dodd.
(The filibuster is not a done deal, but we can use the lead time to hone our Websteresque prose.)