The Democrats blocked a lot more judges than the Republicans blocked during Biilzebubba's presidency (mostly because Trent Lott was about nutless), and with a whole lot less reason. Even in general, it's not the conservative judges who are out there re-writing the Constitution.

I think the Democrats are going to stretch out the 'talks' as long as they can, and the true question is going to be whether Frist has the testicular fortitude to say "these guys just aren't going to work with us" and bust out "the nuclear option"--until then, good men and women are going to continue to get borked.