Frist could lose out if senators achieve a compromise over judicial filibusters

AP ^ | 5/19/5

[Purple GOPer]

Is that really true?

What do you think would happen if Frist gets an up or down vote and four of the judges are not confirmed?

The MSM and the a large number of the posters here would go nuts talking about how Frist blew it and how the "RINO"s (anyone who doesn't vote the way the poster wants) sold them out.

[clintonh8r]

Since there's NO opportunity for approval without a vote, what would you suggest?

[hinckley buzzard]

Could? No could about it.

Absolutely. If First does, in fact, harbor fantasies of a political future past November 2006, this is a life or death situation. Fail to go to the wall now and he is a fast receding footnote in the obscurities of history.

[rhombus]

f First does, in fact, harbor fantasies of a political future past November 2006, this is a life or death situation. Fail to go to the wall now and he is a fast receding footnote in the obscurities of history.

I'm also enjoying putting McInsane in a box. If he votes wtith the Dems on this does he really expect to win ANY Republican primaries? Maybe he'll pull a Jumping Jim but if he were stupid enough to do that his celebrity status as a "maverick" would run for about a week and then he'd be about as useful to the Democrats as Jeffords is now.

[FlipWilson]

But he won't be the one compromising. The "moderate" Senators would force the compromise on the Senate by voting for cloture. Thus, use of the nuclear option would never come up. Moreover, the moderates would vote together on the nominations to be scrapped so that that nominee did not enjoy majority support. As a consequence, invoking the constitutional option would be useless, again, not Frist's fault. Either way, he wins.