[TomGuy]

Now, just to make things clear: How exactly would you have done it?

By following procedure. When the first fillibuster (note that this had never been done before--between a name going out of committee but fillibustered on the Senate floor), Frist should have immediately called for a ruling from the chair. Such a ruling would have been that the attempt was out of order. Frist would have moved to continue business--voting on the nominee. First not only blinked, but he run and hid under his desk--and allowed the Dems to pull this stunk on some 20 names.

[zbigreddogz]

That's a nice fantasy land you live in.

Contrary to popular belief, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington didn't actually really explain the modern rules in regards to fillibusters.