The filibuster should be eliminated. It has usually been the tool of the conservatives. It works not only when fully employed, but also by just the threat of using it--that is the usual way of use.
Now we have a chance to get rid of it. And, it is the republicans doing it. Great. I hope they succeed.
Think of it this way. The absolute sogereign should be the people. The republicans want to install another sovereign, capitial. The senate itself was a compromise that permitted capital (land) to supersede votes. How ridiculous that Wyoming has the same number of votes in senate as California.
The filibuster likewise thwarts the power of the people. It is used far more by the republicans than democrats. Why not let majority rule? What nonsense to let a tiny minority veto legislation or appointments.
The democrats have stoppped hardly any judges so far, and Bush can still make recess appointments.
I say get rid of this monstrosity (filibuster) now and when the true sovereigns are in power we will rule and immediately overturn all the horible legislation and executive decisions done by the current helots in power.