Reply #28: No, he actually can't do what you are proposing (even if you repeat yourself many times).

[BzaDem]

The Constitution says that each house can set its own rules. Each house set its own rules at the beginning of the Congressional session. The Constitution does not say that a house can (AFTER that point) ignore its own rules to write new rules by fiat.

So even if we assume the Senate leadership (with 50 votes in the Senate) can do anything, they would only have been able to do it at the beginning of the session.

(Whether the Senate can do this at the beginning of the session is actually an open question, and while some people talked about it/threatened it at various points under Truman, Nixon, Carter, etc, it has never actually been done. The filibuster threshold was always lowered under the previous standing rules of the Senate for changing the rules.)

In other words, while there is indeed someone in this conversation replying with bullshit and red herrings, it isn't me.