Legislation from ever getting an up or down vote because of filibuster abuse. as the president himself noted yesterday to that poor, downtrodden handful of democratic senators the valley forge contingent, brown's victory last month treated as if the gop has achieved a 41/59 majority in the senate. earlier this afternoon, democrats in the senate giving their 60th member interim senator paul kirk a standing ovation as he delivered his farewell address. senator kirk was supposed to have had one more week in office, but yesterday mr. brown demanding he be sworn in today only hours after massachuse...