Look, we know nothing will happen. Reid would sooner die than do anything about the filibuster:
Senate Democratic leaders have engaged in preliminary discussions about how to address Republican procedural obstruction, according to a senior Democratic aide, reflecting an awareness that key administration and judicial vacancies might never be filled, and that a watered-down rules reform deal the parties struck early this Congress has failed.
“The general agreement was that Republicans would only filibuster nominees in the case of extraordinary circumstances, and once again Republicans are expanding the definition of that term to make it entirely meaningless,” the aide said.
The source said conversations are still too preliminary for Democrats to lay out publicly potential avenues of recourse just yet. And the last thing leaders want is to create the expectation that they will change the filibuster rules in the middle of the current Senate session. But they are occurring in the wake of a series of GOP filibusters of top nominees, including a cabinet secretary (Chuck Hagel), the CIA director (John Brennan), and a federal judicial nominee (Caitlin Halligan) whom Republicans have effectively blocked from confirmation to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for years.
Apparently Sharon Angle wasn’t enough of a near death experience.
I think it was Cannonfire who guessed that Reid wants to keep the filibuster because there are a whole slew of issues that he prefers not to go on record with, so the filibuster saves him a lot of trouble. Democrats should not elect leaders from red states. Also the rest of us need to stop voting for Democrats and search for emergent party alternatives.
Also, I’ll bet lots of Dems fear for the time when R’s have the Senate majority again.
R’s are ruthless in using all the power they attain and then some, so Dems fear giving up the filibuster I would imagine. (Not defending Reid.)