Changing the rules on a day other than the first day of a Congress (which is when the rules are initially adopted) would take 67 votes. So if the Democrats are dumb enough to get rid of the Senate filibuster at a time in which the GOP will have a large House majority (so there won’t be any liberal House-passed bills for the GOP Senate minority to filibuster in the first place) and just two years before the GOP will definitely have a Senate majority (I have no doubt that the GOP will pick up at least 6 seats in 2012, and it only needs 3 or 4) and probably the presidency as well, then they’re bigger idiots that I thought. The only possible benefit the Dems would get from not having the filibuster rule in effect would be for judicial nominations over the next two years, but the GOP has never filibustered a judicial nominee, and then in two years the GOP Senate would have carte blanche to pass the entire conservative agenda.
I they do it then. Cause we need to pass the conservative agenda in 2013, damn the torpedos.