Arguing strictly logically on your question, if it meant that the reThugs would have to change an existing rule that mandates a quorum be present to change rules or proceed on proposed legislation, nominees, etc., that the Dems would have to be present during that process, no? But this rule the reThugs speak about may only hold for nominees to fill cabinet-level positions.
I don't think the Dems are doing anything that the reThugs wouldn't do. I think they need to do anything and EVERYTHING to hold up Darth tRump's agenda. I fully expect the reThugs to take the nuclear option for only one nominee: Sessions. If they hold together on that one (the 'thugs I mean), they will be able to control the country for the next 50 to 100 years despite any changes in the U.S. Census (provided they don't just do away with it completely. And this is aside from the SCOTUS nominee. If the Dems cave on Sessions (and they might because he's been a Senate colleague for many of them regardless of their political ideology), it won't matter who else Twitler nominates, it's all over for this country. That's just a fact. I expect the reThugs to care more about installing Sessions than any other present nominee and that's the one and only one that they'll pull out all the stops on, and I fully expect they'd do away with the filibuster in its entirety. That needs to be the hill the Dems plant their war boots on and defend to the death, nuked filibuster or not. Fight the others, stall and do anything they can procedurally on all the other bad nominees, but that's the one nominee that they simply can't cave on.
I know that the SCOTUS nominee(s) are more important and have the power to shred the fabric of the Constitution to the point of obliterating it, but a patsy in the AG spot will allow the orange dictator and his jackbooted minions to simply break the laws and get by with it on a daily basis. So they will definitely nuke the filibuster with Sessions. That's a given.
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