You may be right but for the time being, how can you stop Obama from appointing 93 radical left wing activist federal judges across America in open venues between now and the 2014 mid term elections? perhaps you can't....BUT once republicans gain control of the senate ever again, they will ONLY use the nuclear option. republicans will never allow the filibuster to be re-instated again, and neither will democrats.    think about it. let's say republicans win the senate in 2014, then re-instate the filibuster......all they'll be doing is dooming themselves because democrats will just filibuster them. then there's the risk of if democrats retake power after that, and remove the filibuster whenever it's convenient for them. they've already proven they're willing to do that.    so republicans have no choice but to use the nuclear option to their advantage from now on, or risk being blocked in the future by 1) democratic filibuster 2) democratic removal of the filibuster.      in the short term this harms americans and republicans. but in the long term, democrats are going to pay dearly......and they won't have anyone to blame but themselves. I have a feeling blaming obama is going to be a common thing for democrats over the next few decades. honestly, this could be an early stepping stone to the end of the democratic party as we know it. who knows what 2050 will look like.    this isn't the end of it though, this can lead to a ploy where obama tries to dissolve the presidential elections and become dictator. we shall see. even if he himself isn't still in office, he can leave a lot of minions behind with the power to run the US the way he wants....effectively being the same as a dictatorship, even if hidden from public eye.    With obama, you always have to consider that they may want you to think they're doing 'this', when they're really doing 'that' behind closed doors. it's two hands committing a crime, but one hand distracting from the crimes of the other.