I predicted that we’d have trouble with the Dems in the minority... the use of filibuster had been rising, particularly in the 2000s, because people were no longer required to actually hold the floor... made it WAY too easy to obstruct legislation. I think that McConnell may be loathe to do away with it now, because the Dems may get the Senate back in 2016 (a lot of vulnerable Repubs up for re-election), and he fears losing a major weapon. If the rules were just changed to restore the holding the floor requirement, we wouldn’t have this level of obstruction.
That’s what my Congressman says — most Senators he talks to want to keep it. But, I think, that it subverts the Constitution and is ruining our country.