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We ought to just call it the "constitutional option". That's what it is.
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Most certainly. Given that, get with it GOP, and make it happen -- b****slap the obstructionist Dems! HARD!

I think we will have the rules change in place by the end of this month.

It is my opinion that Frist knows an opening is about to occur in the Supreme Court, and he is working to do this before that happens.

Calling it the 'Consitutional option' doesn't accomplish much either in my opinion. It's a term that is so bastardized that it means whatever to whomever. The only people who take that term seriously or value it probably don't need much convincing on this issue anyway.

More useful to make a general point of the Dems preference for undemocratic means, and their insistence on pushing their own marginal viewpoints.

The Dems have perversely and desperately embraced the anti-democratic nature of their scheme by trying to portray themselves as some kind of oppressed minority in the Senate. Take 'em at their own words - the Senate is no place for minorities to take the day, and that is an easy argument to make. But once again, (like the war in Iraq) the Repubs fail to rely on a simple principled message, but get bogged down in arcane rules and technical details which take them away from the sustance of the issue, and get them sidetracked over irrelevancies.

The lame Republicans probably believe the Dem spin more than their own constituents do. All it would take is a confident consistent attitude of 'we won, you lost, the American people rejected you and your approach, now get out of their way', but we are talking about Republican Senators here, so I will dispense with the fantasy.