This merits watching on C-Span.......
Frist is not backing down at all from the "Constitutional Option".
I know all conservatives are really pissed at the turncoat 7 and the miserable deal last night. I already e-mailed ken Mehlman and took my name off the contributors list. But if you think we are pissed, go over and look at du, the crazies have a nation wide suicide watch going on. They are ready for civil war, but they have no guns... oh, what a paradox.
Frist has been cuckolded by the 7 RINOs. Think of them as his wife. He can claim that he isn't backing down but the little woman is sleeping with the enemy and there isn't a damned thing he can do about it. If he calls the confrontation, the RINOs go along with Reid as they have pledged to do. Frist can bluster all he wants, but all it does is ratchet up the pathetic factor.
With 7 (SEVEN) Republicans ahving defected to the Democrats, promising that they will NOT vote for the Constitutional Option, Frist only has 48 votes, NOT ENOUGH, to end the filibuster.
Frist should have worked to keep at least some of those 7 traitors in line BEFORE they signed away the rights of the Republican majority.
There is nothing Frist can do now, except wring his hands.
The Dems WON.
Haven't you heard,that they are now the new majority (45 DEms + 7 Rogue RINOs voting with them)?
The Republican agenda is dead, the Republican Senators may just as well all go home now.