congress. you know, ruth, we bring this up because the death of senator inoye was a reminder of this. you know, the world war ii veterans for a while sort of defined the senate. they were bipartisan. that s right. bob dole and dan inoye, they would do these things there and that generation goes. i bring it up because the vietnam guys, all of a sudden they are disappearing. right. and the interesting thing is, there is not another generation a big enough generation, a sort of critical mass of iraq, afghanistan we re probably 20 years away from where you would have that. they are in the house now. i think we re 20 years away. i think the point i was trying to inarticulately address was it s always been interesting
tired of the filibusters that permits things to be filibustered, you know, 60 votes are required even to get something to the floor to be debated. they don t even have to the thing about the filibuster is you don t have to go and actually filibuster. i mean, that s the issue. it s not mr. smith goes to washington where you are reading the phone book, and it s really an endurance challenge. it s the threat of the filibuster, and the other thing is steve made me think of olympia snow. i mean, this is someone who would have been re-elected with 75% of the vote. and decided she didn t want to be there. policy expertise, which is very deep. when president obama was in hawaii and he was flying back the other night, he brought back with him the newly appointed successor to dan inoye on air for one back with him. barack obama walked back in the back of the plane and basically told the new senator spend two hours with jeff binghamton and learn what you can because we