Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.