This is a sickening and sad day for anyone with a clue in Democratic principles. 

You can cheer this as a win for the Republicans only if you lack the imagination to see how this could blow up in their face. When Obama was president and he was faced with unprecedented obstruction from the GOP, he employed executive workarounds to get things done. It was a sensible option at the time, and strategically savvy enough. But what did it do? It greased the slippery slope. It only takes one loose-cannon petulant POTUS to show how dangerous it was for Obama to employ these tactics. 

Turn now to the GOP, so desperately eager for a party win, that they are willing to trash the entire procedure that brings stability and balance to the Senate. They will have their win, but to what end? Do we not see how this has nudged us closer to tyranny? That it would take a single strongman with a simple majority in the legislature to summarily wipe out the SC and install whomever they want at will?