Another vote on a judicial nominee, another filibuster by Senate Republicans.

For the third time in just as many weeks, Republicans filibustered another one of President Obama’s nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Senate voted 53-28 today on a procedural vote on the nomination of Robert Wilkins to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court, falling short of invoking cloture by seven votes.

Over the past three weeks, Senate Republicans have stopped all nominations to fill the three vacant seats on the 11-person D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the court’s caseload is very light. In previous weeks, the Senate failed to move onto the nominations of Nina Pillard and Patricia Millett to the D.C. Circuit Court.

Okay, Senate Democrats, that’s got to be it. Change the damned rules of your oh-so-precious and oh-so-dysfunctional legislative body. Allow the majority to prevail, rather than letting the minority dictate what does and doesn’t get done in the upper House of Congress. Change the rule for cloture passage to a simple majority of the Senate, not two-thirds.

I can hear your conservative tradition-bound members now: “What if we do and the Republicans get the majority?” Listen, folks, if you think Mitch McConnell won’t get rid of the filibuster the first time you block a Republican President’s nominee you’re smoking some of that stuff that’s legal in Colorado. You’re delusional, in other words.

Change the damned rules.