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Terrible cot. but what happened today does not mean that wall street reform has passed. what this means is that debate on wall street reform can go forward. but eventually there's going to have to be an end of that debate, and there's going to have to be a proceeding to a final vote on the bill. dollars to doughnuts, republicans are still going to fill bust thaer too. if doughnuts win and miraculously republicans do drop that filibuster, here's how you'll know. it will only take 51 votes to pass wall street reform, not 60. in that event, democrats may have to keep using the only weapon this wa...

To filibuster it, the american people are going to see that they're filibustering this issue. >> all night votes. you know what that means, roll in the cots, we're going to stay all night. and then sure enough, just like clock work, just like magic, the cot threat worked again. just by threatening to roll out the cots, republicans caved. they lifted their filibuster on wall street reform. this time without even a vote. after filibustering for three straight days, republicans tonight allowed wall street reform to go forward. mission accomplished, yet again. so bye-bye, cot. i'm sure we'll be we...

Cot, but now we can put the cots away. then today it happened again. democrats threatened to hold all-night votes on wall street reform. we had some initial indications of this strategy last night when we spoke to sherrod brown of ohio, then senator claire mccaskill confirmed it here on msnbc with andrea mitchell. >> we're probably tomorrow night going to stay all night and continue to do this until we break some of them free. >> i think we're going to go all night. i think we've made the decision that this is important enough that we're going to stay up through the night and ask continually t...

And do this work. wall street reform is that important. so we're going to stay here. and if the republicans are going to filibuster it, the american people are going to see that they're filibustering this issue. >> all night votes. you know what that means, roll in the cots, we're going to stay all night. and then sure enough, just like clock work, just like magic, the cot threat worked again. just by threatening to roll out the cots, republicans caved. they lifted their filibuster on wall street reform. this time without even a vote. after filibustering for three straight days, republicans to...

Republicans' bluff during the amendments fight on health reform by saying they'd pull an all-nighter in the senate. so that was the threat. roll out the cots. we're going to stay you'll night. roll them out. and votes did start happening late into the night. republicans tried to go all night with that one, but they did not have the stamina. they ended up throwing in the towel around 3:00 a.m. they gave up. so again, mission accomplished, magical cot. now, put the cots away. then earlier this month, harry reid threatened more all-nighters in the senate, this time over republicans filibustering ...