I never miss Hume and I didn't hear what you did. If that indeed is true, then the betrayal is way more then I thought. Frist was hood winked a dozen ways and made some statements about it. Apparently they are going to put it off until after this Memorial Holiday weekend, which is awful. I KNOW Senator Frist wanted the Bolton vote today or tomorrow. Not sure if they are in session tomorrow.
I did not get in on the very first so I might have misunderstood but they were interviewing Dewine and it was in regard to the "deal" the other night, not the Bolton nomination. And the way I understood it, Frist did NOT have the 51 votes for sure as he could not count on Spector as Spector would not commit one way or the other. Therefore, Bush sent Dewine and Graham in to make the best deal they could to get some of his nominees through and to retain the constitutional option and start to get the Senate moving on other things.
If this is true, then Frist, Bush, Dewine and Graham were in on hoodwinking the Dems into a compromise, as the Dems probably thought Frist had the votes for the constitutional option so they thought they were about to lose it all, therefore, they compromised on the three most conservative judges. Of course, none of this could have come out at the time as the Dems would have been tipped off and NOT compromised if they knew Frist did not have the votes.
I think Bush has just hoodwinked the Dems and pulled off a sting, if I am reading this right, whereas he was about to get nothing, he got three judges and Frist retains the CO.