[Benkei]

A relative used to be one of the Judiciary Committee prep guys for judges and appointees like Ashcroft.

His take is they will go for the filibuster - and the rhetoric seems to indicate just that. Of course, if you are going to huff and puff for your MoveOn masters, they have to make it look good even if they don't actually pull the trigger.

It seems to me that the 'nuclear' analogy is more aptly applied to the use of the filibuster rather than a move to break it. Just like nuclear weapons, threatening to use them is one thing, emptying the silos with no way back and no second strike in your back pocket if you lose is another. But - sooner or later you pull the trigger or no one pays attention to you any more. And we all know Teddy and Biden and Schumer (oh my!) couldn't have that.

Yes, it seems that the Dems are becoming more and more like North Korea - with Teddy as the South Park version of Kim Jong-Il, only whiter and fatter. How so? >>>>>>

1) North Korea is a Chinese puppet with occasional ambitions of their own to appear to be autonomous.

The Democratic Party is a MoveOn (et al) puppet with occasional forays into sanity just to appear autonomous.

2) Wild rhetoric and threats of nuclear destruction and/or the overt or covert sale of same is North Korea's stock-in-trade to attempt to gain leverage in a world full of much bigger, more important countries. Kind of like a kid with a popgun in a room full of adults.

The Democratic Party spews wild rhetoric and accusations to make themselves sound relevant even as they work covert and overt deals to use their 'power' for the Michael Moore's and Soros' of the world. And they scream like winos in detox when they aren't getting their way . . . kind of like a kid - you get the idea

[rwfromkansas]

They won't filibuster. They have to peel of some GOPs to win a nuclear showdown, and they won't get even one to go with it if they filibuster this nominee.