Again, the 60 votes is in name only. Lieberman, Nelson, Baccus are not progressives and have blocked real reform because they are in the pockets of special interests, and because they are cowards.

YOu are focusing on one small part of my point. The McConnell vote is an example of a much larger problem: The GOP in general has been the most obstructionist minority in Congress in the nation's history BY FAR.

There were "...over 100 filibusters and acts of procedural obstruction in less than one year," Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, said on the floor on December 20, 2009. "Never since the founding of the Republic, not even in the bitter sentiments preceding Civil War, was such a thing ever seen in this body."