[cyncooper]

Reid is on the floor saying the nuke option is gone....after Frist says he still has it!!

ROFL!!

Look, when this "deal" was announced yesterday it was stated the nuke option remained viable. Many of us tried to explain that but many others were too upset to listen. They wanted to listen to Reid say yesterday the same thing--that it was off the table.

Reid was wrong yesterday and he's wrong today, as now is unambiguously plain.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Watching the replay, we now have Kennedy up.

[TheForceOfOne]

You're correct. I believe that if the rats filibuster it would only take two of the slimy seven pubs to break the agreement and the nuclear option would move forward again.

I posted early that Rush called Frist's office and they told Rush's people that all nominee's were to get up or down votes. Know one is crossed off the list.

I think this is more of a cease fire than defeat after mauling it over. By letting those who the rats called the most extreme move forward for a vote and promising to allow them through, it has raised the bar a lot higher for a nominee to be considered extreme and justification for any filibuster.

In the end, we may win this war by attrition by always holding the nuclear option over the rats heads like a hammer waiting to crush their skulls.

As soon as the rats begin to filibuster or crow about it, they will break the 14 moderates and the agreement.