jraeyre wrote: If the legislation being pushed by the leadership had been less liberal and progressive they might have had a chance of getting all 60 Dems and maybe even a few moderate Republicans on board.  The problem you have is that you had a 60 vote majority of Dems, but they weren't as far left as you and the leadership had hoped. 

It wasn't "liberal" and they had zero GOP votes.

Then they made it less liberal and still had zero votes.

Then they made it less liberal and still had zero votes.

Then they made it less liberal and still had zero votes.

Then they made it less liberal and got two GOP votes.