You think Frist is to blame for there having been insufficient Senators to uphold the nucular [sic] option? There weren't 50 votes in the last Congress! We had 51 Republicans, plus Zell; however, there were some that would not have gone along with the vote (the Maine gals and Chafee, at least).
How hard did he fight? He rolled over like a bowl of jello going downhill.