That will be the headline in November 2012 if the filibuster is ended. The GOP will almost surely have 50+ seats in the Senate after the 2012 elections, based on which seats are up for election that year. With the filibuster gone, they will only need 50 or 51, rather than 60, to move legislation.
The Senate is already massively stacked against Democrats. California, with 10% of the US population, gets only 2 votes, whereas tiny states like Wyoming with a population of 700,000 get the same number of votes. In 2004, George Bush won 51% of the vote but 31 out of 50 states, or more than 60% of the Senate.
By abolishing the filibuster you further pile on top of the Democrats, allowing the GOP to potentially pass legislation in 2013 with a much lower bar than Obama and the Democrats had in 2009. With the conservative domination of the GOP, this would not just be the equivalent of 60 Republican Senators but 60 conservative Senators.
