We now have 55 senators and it only takes 51 to change the rules of filibuster. We just get rid of the filibuster rule.
Looking back at articles, prior to the election, it appeared the GOP temporarily gave up the fight until the election, and they will fight for a rules change (which requires 2/3 according to some, a majority according to others), his other bill that makes sense.....give them one day of fillibuster, but after that, the number of votes needed to pass a bill drops until it is a bare majority. I like this bill.
But, they also have the nuclear option, which they may have to go to, which would involve the VP issuing a ruling from the chair that judicial nominees could not be fillibustered. It would need to be upheld by a bare majority.
Now.....could we even get the bare majority. I don't know. We would come close, but Specter, Chafee, Snowe....they at least would vote against it. Hopefully we would gain at least one Democrat, though I don't know who the heck it would be.
The GOP is reluctant to get rid of the filibuster rule because they know damn well that nothing is forever in politics and after a couple of elections they may be in the minority and be very glad that the filibuster rule exists.