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That's a question posed in a recent column by Daniel Henninger at Opinion Journal. Here's some more of it:

Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy have turned the Senate into a Branch Davidian compound. No one in the liberal cult is allowed to leave, including the hostage nominees---unless they recant their conservatism. How many Senate Democrats plan to be in this bunker when Bill Frist's ATF squad detonates the "nuclear option"?

Meanwhile, Fox News has a report about the Fortas debate in 1968. Take a glimpse:

Republicans point to a 1968 letter signed by some of the nation's top lawyers and law school deans of the time arguing that judicial filibusters had no basis in Senate history or the U.S. Constitution.

"Nothing would more poorly serve our constitutional system than for the nominations to have earned the approval of the Senate majority but to be thwarted because the majority is denied a chance to vote," reads the letter.

Republicans argue that contemporary Democratic filibusters do just that.

Indeed they do.