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Sen. Tom Harkin has some other numbers in mind: 57, 54, down to simple majority in a 100-member Senate. The Iowa Democrat has reprised his proposal to change the Senate's filibuster rule.

But these people are so predictable. A couple years from now when the Democrats are in the minority, they will do a 180 and start talking about how the filibuster is part of the Constitution and the evil Republicans want to do away with the Constitution etc. No one in the MSM will point out their hypocrisy.

If they could, they would pass a law that officially reinstates the filibuster every time the Democrats lose the Senate, and suspends it every time the Democrats are in the majority. MSM editorialists would praise the measure as "a prudent example of democracy in action."

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-- A couple years from now when the Democrats are in the minority, they will do a 180 and start talking about how the filibuster is part of the Constitution and the evil Republicans want to do away with the Constitution etc. --

There is no need to look forward, they were doing that in the 2004-2006 timeframe, when they were using minority power to effectively block judicial nominations.