Point well taken. I say "probably" because it all depends on when they finish voting on the highway bill. Sometimes that takes a day, sometimes it takes three days. Since the Senate meets for formal business just three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday) the highway bill could push the nuclear option to Tuesday.
Regardless, it is happening. Frist's office just announced a "background briefing" for reporters in his office at 3:30 p.m. Check the wires at 4:30 or so to see the stories that come out with "sources close to Senator Frist" discussing the nuclear option.
My sense is that it is finally going to happen.
With Frist coming out and announcing his "schedule", the dems will just find a couple of dozen more amendments to the transportation bill to further "slow walk" that legislation...and they have heard Inhofe state a dozen times this last week that this bill "is the most important bill they will pass this year"---
which will further sput them on to obstruct it---I know they voted yes to a cloture vote though, so maybe they won't be able to totally stall the bill...
Not mine. Watch for a last minute deal that sends the "less contrversial" nominees to the floor, while the rest go home. The icing on the cake will be all the face time Reid will get for his "reaching out" and his "finding common ground" and his ability to "bridge the divide"....