But let's have a reality check, with the current Congressional leadership, it's not like having a 'filibuster proof' majority would do them - or us - any good. The Dems were probably 'holding their' proverbial 'fire' from this contest to give themselves plausible deniability for the inevitable upcoming disappointments.

Democrats could always start making the Republicans actually filibuster.

No more of this 60 vote threshold crap! Stop withdrawing legislation after a single cloture vote!

That's one more stalwart Republican Senator who can thwart the nefarious Obama Agenda no matter how much good it attempts to accomplish!

Now the Democrats can tell Joe Lieberman to take a hike.

Oh, I forgot. They are spineless. Never mind.

... why I'll never live in Georgia.

Obambots sat home drunk and sated after November and couldn't be bothered to come out in droves. Oh well, rhetorical wins count for something I guess. Who needs real progress, that's a lot of work.

...another troll under the bridge.

As said by another poster, the Dems could start by actually making the GOP filibuster. How refreshing that would be!

In any case, this BS about 60 votes has assumed that the Dem "leadership" actually cares to get anything done, and can enforce discipline on all 60 members of their caucus. Hah.

It also assumes that no Republican would join the Dems for cloture. Silly.

At least it gave cover to the pussies who covered for Traitor Joe. Now they don't even have that.

Are the only ones left here on Salon whiney, shandenfreudey fair-weather jerks who are in complete and total alliance with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in pre-emptively declaring the Democratic Party under an Obama Administration a utter failure?

And if so, does that make you hip and clever and ironic and cool?

since Obama didn't win in GA, it's unlikely your scenario was the problem.

Shoulda just conceded way back when, is what you're saying.

Chambliss has never, to my knowledge, offered a single ad about his own virtues. Instead, he has, amazingly, managed to attack from the start, and, while some Republicans are saying that he represents a base from which they can work, all he is is a proof that Lee Atwater's tactics can still win an election among the frightened and furious.

Chambliss has managed these things despite being what an old voter yesterday at the polls called a "draft dodger." He has managed it without having any legislation to his name that he could point to (and that was recently supposed to disqualify Obama). He has done this without having any principles to uphold.

It is a day of despair in Georgia, because whatever nice things the Obama votes said about rural whites in the south (and there were a ton of them), the ability of a Know-Nothing, do nothing, think nothing token to win speaks opposite. The run-off system is partly to blame, born in racism as it was, and the GOP's flood of poorly conceived absentee votes is partly to blame, but the real tragedy is that a man can win by standing for nothing.

Because Georgia deserves the sort of leadership Saxby Chambliss will bring. He's the perfect representative for this backwards, inbred, bible thumping hell hole.

I was arguing with my co-worker who was offended by all of the black people in Georgia voting for Obama back in November. She said his election was a grave injustice based on the evil racism of black people. Forget that her mother would never vote for Obama because he is black AND because he has connections to Islam (her mother finally said he wasn't a Muslim, but she still wouldn't vote for someone who wasn't raised a Christian); she and her family relied on internet rumour to make up their minds about who they would vote for.

She was happy yesterday because she said "real people" would be voting in the election, not those folks who got registered to vote at a hair salon, ignorant people who can't speak proper english (she did admit her countrified dad doesn't speak proper english,) and that since this is a red state that's as it should be.

So yeah, I think Georgia deserves Saxby. He represents these half-wits just fine.

Stop blaming the people who voted for him and start blaming the lack of people who didn't. Everyone who's ever had a pulse knows the basic rubric that low voter turnout favors the GOP. You guys really pissed this one away.

Well said, guys.

Chambliss is an embarrassment to our whole country.

In 8 years has any Republican senator "crossed the aisle" on any vote, ever?

On the other hand, there's always a Democrat or two willing to make that journey; 60 seats doesn't guarantee a Democratic result, probably even 100 wouldn't with this lot.