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"Actually, the fact is that we need to have 60 GOP Senators to get everything we want."

Yeah, too bad there are only about 48 REAL Republicans there now. You have to overcome not only the 60-vote fillibuster line, but the "Rino" factor on top of it (the McCains, etc.).

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Yeah, too bad there are only about 48 REAL Republicans there now. You have to overcome not only the 60-vote fillibuster line, but the "Rino" factor on top of it (the McCains, etc.).

True.

The point is that the Democrats did not perform any great political feat, the system was set up to give the minority party the means to force the majority party to make compromises.