So, it has finally been decided that Al Franken won the election in the race for Minnesota’s US Senate seat. People everywhere are either celebrating or crying because the Democrats now have 60 Senators, which is a “fillibuster-proof majority”.

Is this really important? Does anyone see the Republicans having the backbone to launch a full scale fillibuster of any issue? Furthermore, we’ve already seen that there are plenty of Republicans willing to defect on various issues–that they likely already had a fillibuster proof majority.

So is this really an issue? Or just scare-mongering on behalf of Republicans, to get their base pumped up?