Or Else What?

Texas Senator John Cornyn makes the case for giving Priscilla Owen an up-or-down vote. Presumably, if the senate refuses to act, chaos and destruction will reign o'er the land as disenchanted patriots engage in regrettable, but "explainable" violence against those evil Democratic obstructionists.

My thought is that the 5th Circuit can't really get much more conservative, so why not vote on her? But frankly, I could not care less about what a fringe hack like Senator Cornyn has to say on the matter.