[Mr_Peter]

" say it is time for them to actually be forced to filibuster. "

You miss the point. It takes 60 votes to pass a motion of cloiture (end debate and call for a vote). They don't have to debate, since they can't get the 60 votes.

[Sthitch]

Actually that is not true. It takes 60 votes to force cloture, not to end debate. A Senator can only talk on the same subject twice in one legislative day, if the day does not end until the vote is taken, once the dems are all talked out then a vote will take place. It might take that for the first judge, I doubt it would take that for the second or third.