Did you hear Frist from the floor? Sounded like a pretty happy man to me.
He says he is disappointed they will not give all judges an up or down vote, but it does give the three most controversial ones a vote, which is why he is at least somewhat pleased.
What do you expect him to say?
I am not exactly very happy right now and hope he did all he could, including bribing them to try to get them to vote with him because I really do not want to see our SCOTUS nominees filibustered and I am worried that may happen.
But, the fact of the matter is, any Dem that possibly may have voted with us on the nuc option is in the compromise group. There is simply no way at all that we could have won on this by losing the Republican senators we have lost, and there is no way to have kept them aside from forcing them.
Unfortunately, Frist's hands are tied.