since 2007. this is not new, and this is not news. republicans filibustered the stimulus bill, they filibustered all the different parts of the health reform bill. they filibustered wall street reform, filibustered stuff they have agreed with. they have filibustered the food safety bill. they're so used to filibustering stuff they filibustered that one before 15 of them voted for it anyway. they filibuster bills they agree with now. they filibuster bills they disagree, they filibuster all regular business of the senate. if there was a resolution tomorrow morning to say good morning, mitch mcconnell, it's nice to see you, they would filibuster that. over the last four years, since they have been in the minority, since january of 2007, republicans have employed a blanket filibuster on everything. so their big threat today was they're going to start filibustering stuff. they're threatening to blow up something that is already blown up. we're already living in the rubble of the thing that they