MICKEY KAUS: Does Obama really want to get to 60? “Getting a large, ‘filibuster-proof’ majority would dramatically increase the expectations from his party’s left, and from its entrenched Congressional interests, making them that much harder to control. Without 60, Obama can cite the filibuster threat and easily steer a moderate, popular center-left course. With 60, he’ll have to use heretofore untested muscle to control Dem demands regarding the Detroit bailout, union ‘card check’ elections, immigration, health care, tax cuts, the Fairness Doctrine (sorry ‘Forced Balance’) etc. … “
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