My mistake. I was looking at the wrong part of the chart. That part gave the number of Democrats in the last session. The current number is 58.

My point still stands, DougR. All of the Republicans are voting against allowing the public option to come to a vote. One Independent is threatening to filibuster. The majority of Democrats support including a public option in the Senate bill. The Republicans are more responsible than the Democrats for there not being a public option in the Senate bill by virtue of the fact that more of them are voting against it than the Democrats.

Beardedbruce is the brick wall in this particular scenario because he is trying to say that the majority of Democrats are to blame for what all of the Republicans, one Independent, and a very small number of Democrats are doing. That kind of math is like trying to say that all men are responsible for the actions of those men who abuse their wives.