Democrats start all-night push for change in Iraq

Reuters

With cots, pillows and pleas for change, the Democratic-led U.S. Senate began a rare around-the-clock session on Tuesday to push President George W. Bush and fellow Republicans to end the Iraq war.

Yet Republicans seemed to have the votes to erect a procedural roadblock to stop a Democratic plan that is backed by a majority of the Senate to withdraw U.S. combat troops by the end of April 2008.

That "procedural roadblock," dear friends at Reuters, is called a freaking filibuster. Why does the media insist on downplaying what the Republicans are doing? People know what a filibuster is, why can't they just call it that, rather than using made-up words like "procedural roadblock" to make it sound nicer? Or did I just answer my own question?