So what you are saying is that for Obama’s last two years, with RINOs like McCain, Snow and Graham in a closely-GOP controlled Senate, you want the threshold for putting Obama’s nominees on the bench to be 50 votes and not 60?
Is that really what you’re saying? Whose side are you on, again?
If we continue to set-up a system where every GOP President must reach 60 votes, and every Democrat President only 50 votes, there will soon be no point to elections.
The GOP will never invoke the Nuclear Option under ANY circumstance. The ONLY chance we have of getting judges through in the future is to leave the new rules intact. The benefit of being able to use the Democrats own rules against them in order to bypass their historic obstructionism far outweighs the handful of nominees who MIGHT get confirmed IF a handful of GOP Senators act as traitors during the lame duck years of the Obama Presidency.
The long-term gain FAR outweighs the short-term loss, and I'm not convinced the GOP is in ANY mood, even the Establishment types, to rush any more judges through after what their Democrat colleagues did to them. Even the GOP-E Senators are saying the Democrats have gotten more than their fair share of nominees due to the rule changes.
Under NO circumstance short they change the rules back, or let them get changed back, PERIOD!