that is so out of touch with everyday americans. here i sit in rado kiowa where my neighbors are struggling with gas prices. this is an iowa winter in the heating bills are ever-increasing. families are making tough decisions right now about their spending ability and their spending habits. it s going to be very difficult for the rest of this demonstration if they just can t start focusing on what is going on when the average everyday americans rather than focusing on things like breaking the senate rules and traditions with getting rid of the filibuster and federal lysine elections these are not the things the iowa voters are concerned about. jon: the wall street journal put out a list of reasons that we should continue worrying about inflation i want to read those