OK. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
The wheel will turn someday, and I won't be able to bear the lunatics chosen by the Liberals.
I'm just not sure the reward is worth the future risk.
That is absolutely correct. I see it happening about 40 years down the road. I think that the dims are so toast, that they may never recover- there may actually be a third party replacement, rather than a dim recovery. Kennedy- Kerry- Howard- CLINTOON? I don't see anything there in the near future.
What makes you think that the DemoRats would not move to change the filibuster rule if the republicans in the future should attempt the kind of filibuster tactics that they have been engaging in. You might say, "Oh, they would not do that because it would be hypocritical". What a laugh. The demoRats are a party of hypocrisy. It was the liberal left of the demoRat Party together with republicans that changed the filibuster rules in the 60s so that it took only 60 votes to stop them instead of 67. They have absolutely no regard for the right of filibuster one way or another. It just depends on who is using the tactic at the time. I rather like the ability to filibuster but not for an unlimited period of time. It is anti-democratic to be able to overturn the will of the majority simply thru unlimited obstruction techniques. Of course, if the left would enshrine the ability to engage in unlimited senate debate in the constitution so that they could never change it when they so chose, I would have no objection. Forty one conservative senators could stop all leftist appointments in perpetuity. Not to worry, the left does not want that.