If you had any doubt this was anything but a delay tactic, this morning’s developments should dispel your doubt.
Brett Kavanaugh was sailing to inevitable confirmation before Dianne Feinstein’s last-minute smear/ambush, and that put Democrats in a state of emergency. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, their last hope of a liberal Supreme Court majority could be lost for at least a generation. If you want to know why that represents the political equivalent of a nuclear meltdown, understand that Democrats routinely run to federal judges to impose policies they can’t achieve legislatively (or block policies they can’t stop any other way).