this is going the distance, exhausting every effort to try to at least get up close and personal with people that absolutely hate you. jim mcdermott, can you deal with these guys at all? >> well, ed, i really don't think so. i think that as long as mitch mcconnell is worrying about ashley judd and some candidate on the far right attacking him, he is going to continue to use the filibuster to tie up the senate and make it impossible for majority rule in the united states senate. if you don't have majority rule in the united states senate, you will never get anything over to the house that will force john boehner to put it on the floor and let the democrats and a few reasonable republicans pass it. that's what happened with the violence against women law, and that's what is going to have to happen on all this budget stuff.