You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to knock the table over

As far as I'm concerned, the Nelson-Pryor compromise is worse than the enactment of the nuclear option. If the compromise is accepted, horrible judges will be put on the federal bench, and guess who will determine what is an "extreme" case? The majority, of course. The party that understands how to utilize the news media.

If the nuclear option is indeed enacted, the next logical step would be to file a lawsuit, since such a move would be in violation of Senate rules. While the lawsuit is cooking and being thrown out of court by Republican judges and Democratic judges who don't want their heads blown off by God-fearing cretins from Kansas and South Carolina, the Democratic Party--if it only had a brain--could take its business outside and picket the Senate building. You have to fight massive evil with a massive campaign.

The only thing Democrats know how to spin is their wheels.