comes in representing the people in massachusetts who are hurting and says he is independent, we will see. but from my perspective, ed, i'm willing to support whatever mechanism, whatever tools we have to get things done. that's our job. and we are going to do everything we can to get things done. we passed the recovery act last year when we had 58 votes. we passed children's health insurance, a whole range of things, mortgage help, credit card help, so on. so we are going to proceed. they can choose to be with us and govern or they can choose to continue. we are at 107 objections now, higher than any other time in our history. so they can choose to do that. >> we have talked about filibusters. you have talked about it in the past. >> right. right. >> you see this sea change all of a sudden, the republicans changing their attitude. i just don't see it happening because of the create jobs obama's going to get -- the president's going to get an awful lot of credit for it. >> right. >>...