Good for me, but not for thee

I find it very funny that the media pundits and even the man in the street pretty much assume the republicans are the equivalent of the schoolyard bully and the democrats are the hapless victims whose lunch money is stolen.  When the victims stand up to the bullies, the pundits are sure the sky must be falling.  Surely the dems must act like the "grownups" and allow their lunch money to be appropriated by in this case the republican majority in the Senate.   By mounting a filibuster against the hard right ideologue foisted on the body politic by the Heritage Foundation, Chuck Schumer and company have taken a page from Mitch McConnell and have forced his hand.  Everyone assumed the dems would roll over.  Now the same folks are predicting the deployment of the nuclear option and the approval of Gorsuch by a simple partisan majority with a few red state democrats lending a façade of bi-partisanship to the proceedings.  They may not have reckoned with some of the elder statesmen on the republican side who are not beholden to Cheeto Jesus.  While mostly a bunch of elderly hypocrites, some  may not wish to vote away their prerogatives for a one time win for a crippled presidency.   We'll see, but if there is anything certain over the past few months it is uncertainty.