NYT Opposes Filibusters!

Or, at least that's the position they took in 1995, when Clinton was president and the Senate enjoyed a momentary Democratic majority.
Senator Cornyn noticed.
From the NYT, circa 1995:

One unpleasant and unforeseen consequence has been to make the filibuster easy to invoke and painless to pursue. Once a rarely used tactic reserved for issues on which senators held passionate convictions, the filibuster has become the tool of the sore loser, dooming any measure that cannot command the 60 required votes.

The Harkin plan, along with some of Mr. Mitchell's proposals, would go a long way toward making the Senate a more productive place to conduct the nation's business. Republicans surely dread the kind of obstructionism they themselves practiced during the last Congress. Now is the perfect moment for them to unite with like-minded Democrats to get rid of an archaic rule that frustrates democracy and serves no useful purpose.

The "tool of the sore loser?" An "archaic rule that frustrates democracy?" Say it ain't so.