GOP: 60 Votes Will Haunt Democrats at Ballot Box

Republicans say Democrat Al Franken’s victory in the long-contested Minnesota Senate race opens a new line of attack against Democrats for 2010.

“With their supermajority, the era of excuses and finger-pointing is now over,” National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn said Tuesday, referring to Franken’s addition giving the Democratic caucus 60 members, a number that, if unified, could stop a Republican filibuster.

“That’s why the American people will now have a particularly clear choice in next year’s election — to continue down this path of fiscal mismanagement, more big government, and one-party control in Washington or to restore a system of checks and balances that will hold government accountable to its citizens”...