ROGER SIMON: Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You: Kavanaugh II.

Back up, Don Corleone! Democrats are threatening to “go to the mattress” if “Don” Mitch McConnell follows through on confirming “Don” POTUS’ replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election.

Only slightly more genteel than the mafia, “the mattress” in this instance includes abolishing the filibuster and expanding the Supreme Court, naturally with ideological semblables.

Never mind that RBG herself was against court “packing,” calling it “partisan” in an interview with Nina Totenberg, adding “9 seems to be a good number… I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried… I am not at all in favor of that…”

Or that if the Democrats pack the court with three or four new justices voting their way, and then the Republicans come back and do the same, pretty soon the Supreme Court will be as large and useless as the UN.

None of this, however, is of any moment to Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), among others, or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) or, of course, the capo de tutti capi (insert the feminine, if you wish) Speaker Nancy Pelosi who has put even “impeachment” (again!) on the table if the Republicans go further.

Which means, of course, coming soon to a theatre near you: “Kavanaugh II.”

But before I go further, lest I be thought of as a partisan hack, neither side comes off here in anything close to shining armor. For all the hoity-toity talk, Supreme Court nominations and confirmations are fraught with hypocrisy, everyone claiming a high ground that doesn’t exist.

Precedents come and go and are revised again. Leaders say the opposite of what they said a year or two ago.

Meanwhile, The Constitution says nothing about timing—only that presidents nominate the justices and the Senate confirms. Even lame duck presidents have nominated justices on several occasions. It all comes down to power. If you have it, in this game you take it.

So, not surprisingly, in our era of faux-fairness the confirmation hearings have grown increasingly vitriolic. First were the notorious Clarence Thomas hearings, known forever as a “high tech lynching,” then the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco, perhaps the most repellent display of uncontrolled hatred we have ever seen in the U.S. Congress, at least in our lifetimes.

The Democrat senators behaved not like barbarians at the gate, but like barbarians who had already gone through it and were raping and pillaging at will.

Why else go into politics? the Senators ask.