[heckler]

This seems to me to be the only way to go. You arent making a rule change that may haughnt you later on, and the faces on the DEMons would be priceless.

[MHGinTN]

Unfortunately, Sen. Frist is taking a different approach! He is introducing a bill that would change the rules formally, where a cloture would require 60 votes the first time voted upon, 57 votes the second time voted upon, 54 votes the third time voted upon, then only 51 votes the fourth time voted upon. That smacks of linguini-spined maneuvering, out of fear to confront the damn demagoguing democrat obstructionists!