Yes. The reaction of Frist bothered me quite a bit also. However, from the sounds of what you wrote, I'd say it was for different reasons. My reasons; In my estimation, Frist was chosen to head up the response committee for the conservatives because he would portray how the lovely Senate is falling apart-even if they don't have a clue as to what they portrayed. And check out who the surrounding fellas were. That confirmed my initial reaction. But, why was a monkey wrench(The closed session) thrown into the works in the first place? No, I don't think it had much to do with Iraq because anybody as ruthless as Mr. Saddam, is going to get his paws on anything and everything for destroying things on a whim. My thoughts are that somebody is a pullin' the puppet strings and deliberately upsetting the Senators so as to remain in control. The puppet string-puller saw that all was straying from the original agenda, which is to maintain control.
Well, yeah, but all Frist had to do was shrug "what else can you expect of these creeps?" and refuse to rise to the bait. The secret session could have remained nearly secret, which would have spoiled the whole effort to reconfigure the agenda.
And, today, I'll bet he's not getting rid of Rule 21 because that "wouldn't be nice."