It’s no big surprise that Fox News would come up with some way of pouring salt on the election of Sen. Al Franken (now that Norm Coleman has conceded).
Like an oasis in the desert, the 60-vote Democratic supermajority is a mirage.
Yes, former comedian Al Franken is now Minnesota’s senator-elect — thanks to the state Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday — giving Democrats enough members in the Senate to hit a filibuster-proof majority. This is no laughing matter.
But that’s on a really, really good day. For all intents and purposes, Democrats don’t truly have 60 votes in the Senate.
With the addition of Franken, they technically have 58. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., caucus with Democrats but don’t define themselves that way.
While there is some truth to this Sanders, Lieberman and even Arlen Specter are wild cards) … leave it to Fox News to pour salt on something that is a positive for Democrats.
Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/01/democrats-senate-supermajority-strong-advertised/
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