Democrats in Congress are going to wimp out

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I can see it coming:

The Republicans are going to ram their RW judicial nominees through the Senate after they destroy the filibuster. For all the noise some Republican senators are making about how maybe they won't vote with their Frist on this, in the end they will cave to the pressure just like Reed and Voinovich did with Bolton.

And then it will be up to Democrats to make good on their threat to bring the Senate to a crawl by refusing unanimous consent to all but essential legislation. And there's the rub -- the definition of essential will be stretched and compromised so much it will become a meaningless protest. And before long it will be back to business as usual with a pack of neutered congressional Democrats.

I hope I'm wrong about this. But I'm afraid it just might happen.