[blaquebyrd]

So what is Frist waiting for? Hasn't wasted enough time on this issue with all of his posturing and threats? Do it already! The longer he waits the weaker he looks.

[johnny7]

Skin that 'smokewagon... 'skin'it!!

[Bar-Face]

"So what is Frist waiting for?"

Easy answer is: he is waiting for the next congress or the next President or the next decade or the next century. Anything to stave off making the press mad at him. Our Republican Senate majority has disintegrated into a Majority In Name Only.

[Ticonderoga34]

So what is Frist waiting for? Hasn't wasted enough time on this issue with all of his posturing and threats? Do it already! The longer he waits the weaker he looks.

Those are my thoughts. The only reason that Frist may be waiting is so that after the vote, Frist can say, "I gave the Democrats every chance to come up with a compromise so we wouldn't have to change the filibuster rule". Bush did the same thing with Saddam, giving Saddam every chance to avoid the Iraq war.

In the long run I don't think anyone is going care about whether Frist gave the Demos a chance to come up with compromise. Once the filibuster rule is amended it will be war between the Demos and Repubs in the Senate.