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Originally Posted by Dirty Harry
If I'm not mistaken, in 2009 the democrats had roughly 58 seats in the senate. 3/5 majority is 60 senators.
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Uhhh ... 58 < 60 ... you can check my math on that, I could be mistaken ... I'm not an aspiring accountant.
So what you are saying is that if the Republicans wanted to THREATEN to filibuster something, they would just have to assume that the Democrats didn't have what is commonly referred to as a "super majority" in which they can force a cloture vote to end any filibuster ... otherwise, the simple threat of filibuster could be used to block bills that otherwise would have a majority in the Senate?