Why are we counting Joe Lieberman as an automatic on the 60 vote count? I thought he was against the public option.
Is this just a cloture vote count that matters? I think it is disingenuous to count him with the Democrats as if there was a filibuster-proof majority.
1. 60 is just a number and Liebermans is not a Democrat.
There are really only 58 Democrats in the Senate and you cannot depend upon Byrd being there. If there is not a dependable 60 votes, then what does it matter being a few votes away from 60. The Republicans will vote lock-step against anything anyways.
6. It is just frustrating to keep hearing this meme
trotted out as if it were a given. I know a room of big-tenters couldn't organize a pot luck, but do we really need the additional pressure of this misnomer?
7. The funny thing was that the Founders who wrote the Constitution never included that 60 vote rule.
Neither did they include the filibuster. Those were things that the US Senate invented out of whole cloth. My guess is that it was a way to let a bunch of senators escape accountability by blaming it on something else besides their selfish want to hold onto power or their moral cowardice.
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