John Thune: “I, frankly, do not think that if you get west of Boston or east of San Francisco that you are going to see much transit…”

There’s voter fatigue with high gas prices, and high diesel prices in my part of the world.

The only conclusion one can draw is that the Democrats have concluded that it is good politics for them not to allow the Republicans to ‘get a victory’ or the president to ‘get a victory’ in the middle of a political season.

Odds are we plan on being here next week," said Thune.

It's an economic frustration.