Okay, now we have an alternative to the 'nuclear option', let's call it the 'thermonuclear option': make the demonRATs ACTUALLY FILIBUSTER. Make them talk for hours on C-SPAN so the 69% get really fed up with them preventing the Senate from doing anything. None of this, oh, well, if you say you're going to filibuster let's pretend you are and do other business instead crap. Play it the way the demonRATs played the government shutdowns. Then, once public opinion is really outraged, even the 7 weasles (and probably a handful of vulnerable demonRATs) will vote for the rules change, and in the process the demonRATs will so damage themselves that our majority will increase.
THANK YOU FOR THIS POST, this has been DRIVING ME CRAZY FOR YEARS!!! How can this POSSIBLY be called a filibuster??? I feel like I've been in a parallel universe or something. MAKE 'EM TALK for heaven's sake!! Why is that such a hard concept?