Filibuster: [From Spanish filibustero, freebooter, from French flibustier, from Dutch vrijbuiter, pirate. See freebooter.] Freebooter: A person who pillages and plunders, especially a pirate, or highjacker.

Memo to Senate Democrats: read the dictionary.

It is interesting to watch the French, the U.N. and the Democratic Party topple like dominoes into irrelevance. These matters are spun by the media as setbacks for the Bush administration, but I think that they will end up undoing all three.