But then again, maybe that fiction can be made into something useful in the end. Franken will be seated sooner or later, and that 60-vote supermajority will be reached. Once that happens, the Democratic majority will have no more excuses for failing to do what needs to be done. That, in the end, may prove to be the most important part of Specter's defection. But in the main, and despite all the noisy political theater, it really just doesn't matter. Yet.
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