I’m with Kevin Drum, who quotes Ramesh Ponnuru:

Senate Democrats will have the power to subject almost all legislation to filibuster (a word that does not appear in Will’s column [whence came the “blizzard” phrase]). Overcoming a filibuster takes 60 votes. So Republicans, who will probably end up with 54 seats, would have to win over Democrats to get legislation through the Senate to the president’s desk. If they can do that, the legislation is unlikely to draw a veto.

Uh, yeah. The Democrats have the filibuster. Kevin asks

Is there some kind of unspoken assumption among pundits that Democrats aren’t going to routinely insist on a 60-vote threshold for Republican legislation?

Do the pundits think the Democrats are going to wimp out and not use it as a weapon against legislation they don’t like? There may be slightly fewer instances of its use; I think the House is going to send over tons of legislation that addresses the ids of its loonier members, but I doubt that McConnell and his pals in the Senate will agree with a lot of it and bring it to the floor for votes.