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;Republicans are wary of the move. Many see it as an abuse of majority powers and the setting of a precedent that Democrats will regret the next time that the Senate changes control. This is a position that Reid agreed with in 2005 when his Democrats were blocking President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.
“The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government,” said Harry Reid at the time.
He was joined in this denunciation of Republicans who were also considering the “nuclear option" by a number of his democrat colleagues.
How times have changed. Maybe the reason senate republicans didn't make those changes back in 2005 was because they had the foresight to realize they wouldn't always have the majority. Looks like the senate democrats have some short-term memory problems.