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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
You are kidding right?  THAT is your example?  In 2010 the Dems were in control of the Senate.  Don't try to blame a filibuster when Reid couldn't even gurantee that he could bring his OWN people to the table!  If he can't get cloture on a bill the leader of his own party would like than it is his problem, not the minorities problem.
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Just to add to what the previous poster wrote. It requires 60 votes to invoke cloture (which ends a filibuster). Because of the many lawsuits that delayed the seating of Al Franken and then the illness and eventual death of Ted Kennedy, Democrats essentially never had 60 votes. This is one reason that Obama has had so much difficulty in getting legislation passed. The Republicans have used the filibuster exponentially more than it has ever been used in past Senates.  In the case of the vote on the DISCLOSE Act, all Democrats voted in favor. One Independent, Joe Lieberman, was attending a family funeral and did not attend the vote. Harry Reid voted in favor, but then switched his vote in a tactical move that would allow him to later reintroduce the legislation.

So, Reid brought his people to the table. The Republicans used the filibuster to block the legislation. That is simple fact. 
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