Yesterday an American Thinker article encouraged the GOP to get rid of the filibuster. You know the rats tried and will do it again if given the chance. Why can’t we be assholes? Trump’s not afraid.
I would argue for figuring out a means to make the filibuster rule permanent and unchangeable -- if at all possible.
I agree: the GOP is being naive to think that they are all noble and virtuous by keeping the rule in place while they preside, for the Democrats were brazen in stating their own plans to turn the Senate into an activism HQ.
So I propose this:
(1) Get rid of the filibuster rule;
(2) With that done, get the Trump agenda fully implemented;
(3) Implement a new rule: require any vote to change the size of SCOTUS -or- to implement any court "reforms" to have a super-majority of 67 votes to pass
(4) Just before the _next_ Senate takes over, re-institute the filibuster rule with a provision that it requires a 3/4ths vote to change the rule at any point in the future.
Gotta keep the Democrats from being Democrats.