remember the weeks we waited for gang of six and then olympia snowe and joe lieberman and various personalities. the questions if we were just a majority rule country we would have a bill that everyone understood and a bill that people liked and we would move forward. based on yesterday that s the direction we re going. senator frist, do you agree with a lot of democrats that this republican party has been using the filibuster too much over the past year? i think so. in the same token in 2003/2002 we had ten consecutive filibuster judges. the use of the filibuster is not new but compare it to 15 years ago, 20 arizoyears ago, it s uso much. the lack of sort of things we saw yesterday. it s not a republican versus democrat. at certain times our constitution by our founding fathers set up the senate to be that cooling saucer and to