Great speech. The key though, is how Obama and the Party respond to 59-41. [View All]

The GOP has been blanket filibustering the majority of legislation this Congress, and they get to turn it into a mostly "do nothing" Congress without paying any political price, so why wouldn't they (we already know they don't actually care about governing)? So I expect them to continue doing exactly the same thing.

I'm glad President Obama called attention to this, but he didn't spell out a clear way forward (I know it's up to the Dem Congressional delegation).

If the Party simply accepts the framework that, well, the rules are different for Democrats and Democrats need 60 votes to pass any legislation, they are doomed and deserve to lose power, and Obama will go down with them.

They need to do something. Blunt the filibuster by changing the rules, nuclear option or whatever, some intermediate change. Utilizing reconciliation. Exact a cost by either making filibusters stop all legislative business, or returning to old style "Mr. Smith" filibusters, make the GOP read the phone book like douchebags on camera.

Something. Anything but what has been going on. This is the test that the Brown election in MA has put on the Democrats, and we must see what the response is.