The 60-vote threshold is meaningless. The reality is that the Republicans could barely get 51 votes on any transformation piece of legislation even if they had 90 seats in the U.S. Senate.
I fear that this is because a number of ‘Republicans’ were put in place by the opposition (and by that I refer to something much more dangerous than domestic Democrats). That's not ‘tin foil hat’ commentary. It's a real consideration. We are an open society, and that provides a target for enemies, both foreign and domestic. Our open society is a treasure, but it also means we need to be much more vigilant and much less naive than we have been.
That’s exactly right. If the GOP had 90 seats in the Senate, they would form a “gang of 41” to obstruct any potential progress.