Here's another factoid - cloture originally required 67 votes. Robert Byrd of WV, as majority leader, reduced that to 60 votes. Joe Manchin should take that as a cue from a fellow West Virginian Democrat and at least agree to reduce it to 55 votes, or just get it over with and change his party affiliation to GOP or Independent, because right now he's doing about as much for the Dems as the Dixiecrats did. |