"The Senate, as it now operates, has become unconstitutional."

This isn't how the senate typically works. Filibusters tend to be fairly rare in normal times, and the minority party has used them more as a bargaining chip.

I hope that eventually the Republicans just abandon their current strategy and start working with the Democrats. I was absolutely floored when they decided to filibuster an Afghanistan spending bill to try to throw the government in crisis (and even more floored that people like John McCain went along with it).

But I also am firmly convinced that the Filibuster in some form should stick around. When people negotiate in good faith, then it's an important check on the power of the majority.

Krugman called it the "atomic option" and said it would destroy "centuries of Senate procedure." The Democratic Party painted it as an existential threat to the nature of the Republic.

What a difference a few years makes.

To which I'll only add that Thomas Geoghegan embarrasses himself as a lawyer with his utter ignorance of Article 2, Section 5, Clause 2 of the Constitution.