(Video) Late night candle light vigil outside Senate Building

This is the kind of effort we have been asking from the Democratic Party for what has felt like an eternity.  After four months of half-hearted efforts to force a vote on the war, Majority Leader Harry Reid kept the Senate up all night to try and break a Republican filibuster on an amendment that would call for the withdrawal of US troops beginning in 120 days.  Whether or not the Democrats can achieve the end result they want is out of their hands in the short-term.  What they can continue doing is pressing hard each day, using every tactic they can.

In the late-night hours of this debate, a group of Democrats joined veterans and other anti-war activists outside the Senate building.

Obviously this brand of fierce opposition should have been implemented months ago, and the Democrats were lazy not to stand their ground until now.  But here we are.  Where do we go from here?  The Democrats are getting the message that debates like this one are healthy and welcomed by seven out of every ten Americans, and they will not maintain majority without giving it their all.

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the democrats should force the republicans to seriously enforce their filibusters by making them talk non-stop as portrayed in 'mr. smith goes to washington'. every time the gop wants 60 votes, force them to filibuster. let america see who is stonewalling and who truly wants to do the right thing.