First the good news--the stupid Conrad commission is dead. The 53 votes garnered weren't enough to pass the undemocratic Conrad/Gregg "deficit" cutting commission, which would have required that the panel’s recommendations be voted on by Congress without being amended. That would mean the Senators themselves wouldn't have to actually do their job of making tough policy decisions, and could blame unpopular votes on an unelected commission.
The special deficit panel would have attempted to produce a plan combining tax cuts and spending curbs that would have been voted on after the midterm elections. But the plan garnered just 53 votes in the 100-member Senate, not enough because 60 votes were required. Anti-tax Republicans joined with Democrats wary of being railroaded into cutting Social Security and Medicare to reject the idea.
Obama endorsed the idea after being pressed by moderate Democrats. The proposal was an amendment to a $1.9 trillion hike in the government's ability to borrow to finance its operations.
The bad news is that there were fifty-three votes for this proposal, and that there are 37 Dems on the list. Many of them probably voted for it, knowing that it wasn't going to meet the 60 vote threshold which meant it was a gimme vote--they can tell their constituents they support reducing the deficit without actually having to do it. But it also means that 37 Democratic Senators endorsed the idea of turning over their decision-making power to an unelected body for the very likely purpose of slashing social programs. Here they are: