For all intents and purposes, Democrats don't truly have 60 votes in the Senate.
With the addition of Franken, they technically have 58. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., caucus with Democrats but don't define themselves that way.For all intents and purposes, Fox News, the caretakers of the Republican Fantasy World, is lying. Just like with a majority, a super majority is not judged by how many votes a Party has, but how many members caucus with it. Majority power rests on a simple majority (51). A super majority rests with 3/5 of the vote (60). If we go by Fantasy World logic and conclude that senators who do not always vote with their Party are then stricken from their share of seats, accordingly Republicans only have 32 votes considering the 8 moderates in the Party that voted for SCHIP.
Of course it would be a complete falsehood to state such a prose. Republicans obviously have 40 seats and not 32. Now consider that Fox News, a leading media outlet in America, is pushing a story just as false and inaccurate as me saying Repubs only have 32 votes. That's just how Fair and Balanced Fox News is.
