Fighting is valiant, but gamble at the table too long and all those voters who’ve sided with Dems would start blaming both parties for the the chaos if it stretched into Thanksgiving. I doubt Dems would retain the higher ground. Hardcore Dems are upset, but they have options in January.

Dems have two options now: booo their team or fight during an election instead of sitting at home during an election grumbling about the fight they lost as the minority party. Secondly, this only pushes it back to January. There is a round 2.