midterm election year. alex, thank you. john: chuck schumer says the senate will soon vote on a carve out to the filibuster in order to get a vote on the democrat s election overhaul bill. wall street journal editorial board saying the majority leader will try again to blow up the senate, blow up valid election laws. and let s just rewind the clock back to 2005, james, if we could, starting out here and what chuck schumer said about the necessity to hang on to the filibuster. listen here. the idealogues want to what the founding fathers saw the cooling sauce of democracy into the dictatorship. they can t get their way on every judge to change the rules
going to college or by serving in the united states military and a subject so close to your heart, compensation for 9/11 first responders and you have been working so hard on this in the house of representatives, and they couldn t even bring it up in the senate today. it must be so frustrating to you to see what is going on, and i got to tell you, it is only going to get worse when the new congress convenes in january? well, thanks for cheering me up, wolf. well, look, when people say, oh, congressman, how come you didn t bring up this vote on the tax rate back in august or september, well, you know, ben franklin said that the senate was the cooling sauce of democracy, but it is like a meat locker over there, and everything is going to die. it is a problem. the senate is a minority rule body and it is troubling. i hope on the one issue, on the 9/11 first responders that some partisanship can be set aside for a moment to let this get done, but why should we think it