Could? No could about it.
A really balanced article, eh?..BTEW..when Frist pulls it of..he's gonna look very good to the base. All the complaining about "why has it taken so long" will disappear..
Frist could lose out, WRONG!!!! Nice try AP. And now, we interrupt this regularly scheduled MSM spin for a dose of reality. Win lose or draw, Frist wins. By virtue of finally trying end the filibuster of Judges, Frist has scored HUGE points with his base. Moreover, Frist will have eliminated potentional opposition (any Republican Senator who compromises) for getting the Republican nomination.
Absolutely. If First does, in fact, harbor fantasies of a political future past November 2006, this is a life or death situation. Fail to go to the wall now and he is a fast receding footnote in the obscurities of history.