Isn't Sleep Depravation a form of torture? I guess next they will try waterboarding!

They critize the Iraqi parliment for taking a vacation while US Troops are at war. Why are they taking a recess in August? Shouldn't they stay and play?

I guess if you can't deliver on what you promised to accomplish in the first 100 hours, you divert the attention by playing stunts.

Once again, with foolish antics, the Dems prove ineffective. You can't force a vote no matter how much sleep depravation you may cause.

Why would CNN use the "nonsense", even if it is a quote, in the headline? If this were a story on Paris Hilton, a biased opinion could be used as the story headliner, but not for something as important as this…

"Remember those WMDs and that guy Osama?" — Bubba

Well Bubba, perhaps if CNN and FOX news had journalists with spines that actually covered the Iraqi war instead of devoting 20,000 hours to Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton you would know that Iraq didn't have any WMD.

I suggest you read the International Herald Tribune, and the Singapore Straits Times. You might be astounded to discover that Iraqis are actually dying in the war too.

Wow. Nice headline CNN. You call the Senate's action to end the Iraq occupation "nonsense", a position the American public greatly supports. Best of all, you're quoting Senator Stevens, notable for proposing a multi-million bridge to nowhere and calling the internet a series of tubes.

Anyone who says this was just "political theatrics" or a waste of time and taxpayers' money is just jumping on the bandwagon and not thinking with their own head.

The filibuster is a VITAL part of American democracy. It ensures that controversial bills are agreed upon by at least 60% of the Senate. I don't care which party is filibustering, and I don't care which party is fighting that filibuster with these kinds of "theatrics." Both parties do it, and it's completely necessary in order for an elective republic such as ours to flourish.

The Democrats only got elected because people were sick of the Republicans. Wow great way to vote. What happens when you get sick of the Democrats? Will you then vote third party? Or will you wakeup before its too late.

"If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you still get evil"- Michael Badnarik '04 Libertarian Presidential Candidate

Both sides of the aisle are clowns. A waste of time and no productivity; if anyone ran a business like this, it would be bankrupt.

Their dirty little secret is that they are voting this morning on a payraise for themselves. Funny how that isn’t getting the press so that people can revolt like we did with the amnesty bill.

They (R and D)continually play the public like a violin and a majority buy it. Wake up and don’t be played off on each other any longer. Its time for moderates to unite for a viable 3rd party to start checking these charlatans.

The war was a mistake, but we are there NOW and have an obligation to stablize the country before leaving. The fact is leaving prior to that would create the exact same scenario that happened in Afganistan (post-USSR occupation) which ultimately facilitated 9/11. It sucks I know, but it is reality. Decry my position all you want, but please tell me how you would avert a failed nation state.

We made our bed and now have to sleep in it. Tough medicine to swallow, but Congress needs to be dealing with reality and not playing slumber party games with the future of our nation.

Of course I expect this on CNN. I don't like Fox news and I'm not pro-Republican, but frankly the Democrats don't "push the will of the people" nor do I expect a surge in Democratic seats in the fall. The Democratic party is the party of the disorganized whiners who want to "share" in the productivity generated by others, while the Republicans want to concentrate power in themselves.
A plague of both their houses; THIS PARTISANSHIP MUST END OR THIS COUNTRY WILL. Vote your conscience, not your party.

I wish the Senate would stay up all night in an effort to WIN this war. We are the American people and TOGETHER there is not much we can't do.

The Senate Democrates didn't "make" the Republicans do anything. This thing keeps getting turned around. It is the Republicans that had obejction. It was the Republicans' fillibuster that we were watching last night. It is the Republicans that are out of sync with the American people.

I was humbled when I woke this morning and saw them still there on the Senate floor debating an issue that was important to them. As a military member, it's important to me too.

I wonder how much this cost the US Taxpayer to bring in cots? US Troops do not get cots. They have to sleep on the ground. Maybe if the Senators wanted to show solidarity with America's fighting men and women they should have grabbed a poncho liner and slept on the floor. And as an added measure - turn off the air. Experience a little heat like in Iraq plus save energy and stop global warming!

It's time the Republicans act in our national interest and support the will of the vast majority of the American public instead of supporting the political interests of the President.

They will pay at the polls for choosing political party over country!

Isn't that kind of the pot calling the kettle black? Not so long ago (when the Republicans were in the majority) I recall many a "stunt" pulled in the name of politics. It is time the Republicans wake up, smell the coffee and realize they are out of step with most Americans.
And just because they are not getting their way any more does not mean the Republican minority in the senate act like a whining bunch of schoolgirls
Thanks

Here's a thought. Why doesn't the Congress stay in session non-stop until the War is ended. Maybe the only way either party will come around is if they are forced to live with each other and the consequences of their inaction.

In response to Karen Hurley's comments, I do not understand how you can say the Democrats are bullying Republicans on this issue when it has actually been the other way around. Democrats are just carrying out what most Americans want them to do, which is take action to end this war, and that's exactly what they are doing.

It is a shame that the Republicans have to be treated like children in hopes that they have the backbone to vote with their brains and not their oil hungry political party. We are talking real people here folks. WAKE UP!!!

The Republicans will see what "nonsense" is when they are voted out next year for not following the will of the people.

Nonsense is far too kind of a word. Imagine the expense of staff and support services for their theatrics!

What did the democrats expect to gain by forcing an all-nighter? Just because a person gets sleepy doesn't mean they will cave to the dems demands. It's time the democrats start acting like adults and realize they cannot bully the republicans into doing what they want because they control Congress.

I can stay up longer than you can, nyah nyah nyah. You're a dirty liberal and my Daddy Bush can beat up your daddy. Oh yeah, well my American People are bigger than your American People, so I win! Booger.
Are our elected leaders actually a bunch of little children at a sleepover? Remember those WMDs and that guy Osama? This is no joke to me, or my vote.