Kerry: "Voinovich had the courage to think."

This is a great speech by Sen. Kerry on the Senate floor.  He is just lambasting the Republicans right now.  Saying that "Senators used to show courage and independence all the time.  They used to never think twice about partisanship.  Open your eyes and look what's happening in Congress today."

He's covered DeLay, Bush v. Gore, Frist's "Justice Sunday," the Bolton nomination, the nuclear option.

This guy is making me proud to have voted for him November 2.  I don't care about what you thought of him as a campaigner.  He gets it as a person.
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...directly to Frist now, about the "filibuster of faith": "Mr. President, I resent that." (he means the President of the Senate)

I'll continue to update.

Update: He's reading off what might as well be a playbook for reform Democrats, and it's refreshing. This is a speech that encapsulates the statements in the recommended diary.

Now there's a riff on "the new view." "If you can't win a debate on the merits, demonize." "If you can't win playing by the rules, change the rules." He's going after the specific judges now. "The fact that we even have to debate the nuclear option on these judges means that this is all about power, all about victory... I think it's time to put Americans back in control of their own lives."

Awesome. And before you say "Where was this guy in November," he might have had to go through that to get here.