Reply #5: He's simply looking further ahead. [View All]

[Geoff R. Casavant]

We hate the filibuster now because it's being used to stymie progress. But the Republicans won't be in the minority forever -- they, or other parties like them, will retake the Senate -- not in 2010, not in 2012, maybe not for a few decades, but it will happen. And when it does, we are going to want that filibuster there to provide a brake on going backwards.