[KarlInOhio]

That's probably what I remembered. The new filibuster rule voting would itself be subject to the old filibuster rules until it passed, thus requiring 2/3 approval if any Republican had the spine to filibuster it. And that's a pretty big "if".

[sickoflibs]

RE :”That’s probably what I remembered. The new filibuster rule voting would itself be subject to the old filibuster rules until it passed, thus requiring 2/3 approval if any Republican had the spine to filibuster it. And that’s a pretty big “if”. “

Like I said, Mark Levin suggested Senate Rs do this in his book Men in Black, back about 2004.

The theory behind the “nuclear option” was that the Senate had the right to determine its own rules and that those rules could be determined on the basis of a majority vote. Democrats objected, arguing that the Senate’s rules could not be changed without a 2/3 vote as stated in the Senate Rules themselves. Republicans countered that the Senate’s power to govern itself was founded in the Constitution itself and that internal Senate Rules could not deny that power.[1]
wiki/Gang of 14