And I've said until I was blue in the face, DEMs control the timing of that event. Absent their objection, there cannot be a nuclear option. Instead we got a negotiated settlement to avoid a fight.
And it was predicted by nearly everyone, then, that the fight was not avoided - it wsa merely delayed.
And now, not only is the fight delayed, but the aversion to fight has caused a timid nomination.
Rah Rah GOP - fight the good fight for judicial consrvatism and constitutional principle. Way to go!
That is when this fight should've been picked and fought. Bill Frist should've called the question, made the Dems object, let Cheney rule from the chair and we should've gotten it on then and there and settled this. I think we'd have won then. I don't know that we'd win now. But Frist didn't do what he should've done, I don't know why the White House didn't jack up the pressure to make him do what he should've done, and we've wound up with the Gang of 14, and the present mess.