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If dems are dumb enough to do this, it is not too bad. In 2012, we can simply continue it and repeal every liberal piece of legislation. We can easily get 51 votes then (I expect GOP to have around 57 votes then along with GOP president).

There is NO WAY the Dems would leave it in-place for Republicans to enjoy. Indeed, If the Dems try this they'll be brazen enough to put a conditions-limitation on it so that any filibuster "reform" exists ONLY for when control of the Senate is in their hands. I can see it now ... the change in Senate Rules might read something like this:

"(1) When the Senate Leadership is held by the Democrat Party, a Republican instigated filibuster can be overridden by either a 1/3 minority vote or by administrative determination of the Majority Leader. (2) When the Senate is held by the Republican Party, a Democrat instigated filibuster can only be overridden with a 4/5th majority vote and with the approval of the Minority Leader. (3) This rule is only revokable by a 4/5 majority vote when Democrats are in power. (4) When Republicans hold the Senate Leadership no change in this rule will be entertained or allowed."

Given their arrogance, I wouldn't be surprised to see such a brazenly audacious and unfair rule actually passed, published, and defended as "reasonable" by the current Democrat and Media pundits, with blame for it being laid squarely on the shoulders of the Republicans. And, I would expect that the RINOS would whimper and accept the blame because they weren't "bipartisan enough."

For Democrats, politics is always Calvinball (as in the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes").

It used to be that a larger number was needed to stop a filibuster--I think it was 2/3. A couple of decades ago, I think, was when it got changed to 60. That meant that the minority party had to have a larger number of seats to stop the majority party from running roughshod over it--as they did between mid-2009 and Feb. 2010 when the Democrats had 60 senators.