Well, well well, a thoughtful piece that does not blame Frist for laying the predicate which led to this debacle. Frist never had the votes as Levin acknowledges. Frist has the votes for some Circuit Court nominations. Graham and DeWine are on record, naming names of judges that Reid would filibuster, that they would vote for the nuclear option.
You are speaking of the state of play
after the gang of seven acted as a fifth column and disarmed the nuclear option. It was then that the whole of the conservative base went ballistic. Lindsey Graham stated backpedaling faster than Ginger Rodgers, declaring which filibuster he would determine for his colleagues were
legitimate and which were not and therefore which judges he would vote for.
