Reply #224: In the short term, remember that we don't need 60 votes, we need 50 + 1

[AllyCat]

Expose the idiot Repukes who filibuster more than any other session of Congress. Work with Reid and the actual Democrats in Congress and the not-so-Democratic Democrats in Congress to end this stupid filibuster rule.

And frankly, not one of these things will happen because of corporate slime in politics. And the fact that Obama is a corporatist and was during the election (one of the reasons he was my second to last choice of all the candidates) is exactly what has caused so many of us who worked for him anyway to realize we could smell a rat in 2008. And now we're stuck with it.

I don't think he can or wants to get it back. What we need is to stop trying to save Obama and work on saving our democracy by getting rid of corporate filth in our seat of government.