this is a real philosophical thing. terry will get this and you ll get it. lick politics today you can anything passed without a supermajority. it s a sack race. like every fourth of july picnic, this is the sack and the democrats and republicans have a leg in the sack. i think you re overlooking one important thing. why did the president not take on the filibuster directly? why not go after the filibuster months if not years ago? number one. you re going to try to do that in 1957? richard nixon and the liberals wouldn t help them. they supported the dixiecrats. that was the terrible history. both parties are afraid of the other party dominating. if you don t like it, toss everybody out. robert reich, if you break the filibuster rule, if you get rid of the 60 you ll be the