"Moot" - but yes, it is. It didn't deserve the level of urgency it got, at any rate. Excitement breeds mistakes.
Frist is reluctant to bring up ethics and lobbying today, because the DEMs are bound and determined to use the opportunity to bring up the ports deal. Action in IRAN is still some time distant. The administration hasn't been making the sorts of noises it was in the year prior to taking on Iraq.
Good points. We have more pressing matters.