re: #289 TampaKnight

By the way, the Republicans didn’t even have the ability to fillibuster in the Senate until Scott Brown was elected from MA, and as we’ve seen (and knew then), he’s not an obstructionist but rather a pretty moderate Republican living in a liberal state.

There’s no way he would have been the “last vote” on a fillibuster of something as important as our Federal budget.

Until Al Franken was seated, R’s only needed 40 to filibuster. Any day that Ted Kennedy or Robert Byrd was sick at home the R’s only needed 40 to filibuster.

And most days, Joe Lieberman is a stealth R.