we're all familiar with these sausage-like compromises that he had to make with mary landruie in order to got to the vote, but the modern senate uses the filibuster, but let's say i was a political conservative who thought that the affordable care act is terrible and should be repealed as soon as possible. well, it's not unrealistic to imagine that president obama will be reelected in 2012 and that the republican party will continue to control the house and game the senate, so one would expect them hr1, you might very well expect to be a bill to repeal what they call obamacare, but the president will veto it. now, as a political liberal, that's fine with me, but if i were conservative, i would be furious. i'd say, look, we've had this national debate, we won the house and the senate, but it really doesn't matter because this one person can block the legislation, so i really do think that americans spend an insufficient amount 6 time thinking -- of time thinking of issues that if they've ever been taught, it might well have been when they were in the 7th grade because what i'm really ta