[Rudder]

For starters we could re-institute the old-style filibuster: The filibusterer must speak to hold the floor by a non-stop verbal presentation to the senate (even if they all gone home), when he (or she, it) stops, the filibuster is over.

The press would love it, the dems might try it maybe once. They would be given enough rope to hang themselves.

The result: filibuster is dead and its demise is not blamed upon the conservatives.

[RWR8189]

IIRC in that case there would only need to be one Democrat in the chamber filibustering and we would need 51 Republicans there to vote on the measure whenever he let up.

Invoking cloture takes 60 votes, if you don't have them, it doesn't matter how many Democrats are there.

[Swordmaker]

For starters we could re-institute the old-style filibuster: The filibusterer must speak to hold the floor by a non-stop verbal presentation to the senate (even if they all gone home), when he (or she, it) stops, the filibuster is over.

Actually, IIRC, the filibusterer can always demand a quorum call... at which the master-at-arms of the Senate must round up a quorum of Senators to listen to him read the Manhattan phone book, so they can't all go home. It makes a delicious picture, doesn't it?