What veto-proof majority?

From a Facebook friend:

Every time a conservative brings up that worn-out old lie that Democrats had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate for the first two years of the Obama administration and there was was no excuse for them getting anything done that they wanted, I always remind them of this.....

Al Franken of MN wasn’t seated until July of 2009 because of the vote recount and legal quagmire that ensued from his senatorial race with Norm Coleman. That gave the Dems a 60 vote filibuster-proof majority for 7 weeks until Ted Kennedy’s death on Aug 25th. It wasn’t until a month later on Sept 25th that Paul Kirk was sworn in to temporarily fill Kennedy’s seat, once again giving the Dems their 60 votes until the special election that was held 3 months later and won by Republican Scott Brown.

So for that 2-year period where the righties claim that the Dems were in COMPLETE control with a filibuster-proof Senate, it actually was a total period of only FIVE MONTHS. During that short period, conservative Senate Dems Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) always sided with the Republicans on the filibusters, making it impossible to pass any legislation that was sent up to them from the Democratically controlled House. It was the abuse of the filibuster by the conservatives in the Senate that brought the legislative wheels of Congress to a halt…… and then the Republicans pointed to Obama and whined and bitched about him not doing anything to address the problems of the country, considering he had two FULL years of TOTAL control of Congress to do so.... another complete bullshit lie from the GOP.