[Redcloak]

Republican Senators "back down"?!? Surely you can't be serious!

[ken5050]

Give them a chance to succeed, or fail, befoe you condemn..I think Frist is playing this one perfectly....All the Dem senators who came out in opposition last week have NOT said if they will support a filibuster. That's the key issue, we know he has the votes for passage. But Frist has to find 9 Dems to invoke cloture...right now, he's probab;y got 6-7....but he can't say anything until he gets them all...why would the others put themselves out front that way.....?

[mware]

NO way they are going to back down on the Estrata vote. I read an article several days ago that said they were going to have a media blitz trying to win support for Estrata.