Frist is Majority Leader. He has 54 party colleagues to pass a rules change. It is up to him. He needs to display leadership, use the power of his position, do some arm twisting if necessary on a couple of the RINO's still standing.
He gave a great little speech on CSPAN, but preaching about the problem to the choir is of no value. Come the next Congress, Frist needs to act decisively.
Folks....the nuclear option stands a decent shot of passing this go around.
Dascle has been replaced with a conservative. This means that if the 5 GOP defections as Frist found in polling last year still defect, and we lose nobody else, we could poll it off.
Frist was not weak and spineless last term....they tried hard to get rule changes passed, but there were not enough votes.
The only thing I fault him on is not forcing them to do real fillibusters. And frankly, I feel like that is a last resort......try to change the rules first.