be careful what you wish for...
The near-term gain caused by abolishing the filibuster will be dwarfed by the long-term loss caused by removing a time-hallowed component of the system of Congressional checks and balances that can protect a minority from majority oppression.
Except they're only preventing filibusters in the case of the Seanate's role of "Advise and Consent" on judicial nominations. The only supposed precedent the dims have to offer is the bipartisan 1 week filibuster of Abe Fortas's (who was already a sitting justice) nomination by LBJ as Chief Justice.
Fortas eventually resigned from the bench for ethics reasons that prevented him from even joining a DC law firm after he left.
Frist needs to pull the trigger and reestablish the Senate's constitutional role