Game of Chicken Finale'

This is the week. The two "resubmitted" judicial nominees should hit the floor this week from committee. Now lets see who blinks.

Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday that the Republican Party now has the votes in the U.S. Senate to stop any planned Democratic filibuster of the president's judicial nominees.

There's no doubt in my mind, and I'm a pretty good counter of votes ... that we have the votes we need," McConnell said on the Sunday morning news program.

Harry Reid exhibits some of his trademark hypocracy on the subject here

Update I: The Dems have blinked, now if we can just keep Frist and some of the more wobbly elements of the Republican leadership from snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.