NO, PRES. OBAMA DID NOT HAVE 60 VOTES FOR 2 YEARS

The wackos love to claim that the Democrats had a 60-seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate for the 1st 2 years of the Obama Administration but that is simply not true.

First of all, Sen. Al Franken wasn't seated until July 7, 2009. Second, after Franken was sworn in, Sen. Edward Kennedy was being treated for brain cancer and was rarely voting. Third, Sen. Robert Byrd also spent time in the hospital.

Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune looked into the records and found that the Democrats had a functioning super-majority for about 4 months (h/t David at Crooks & Liars):

Congressional records reflect that the Senate was in session for 72 days during the four months and one week (of the nearly 41 months Obama has so far been in office) that the Democrats actually had a filibuster-proof majority — not a particularly long time in the deliberately pokey upper chamber.