From ThinkProgress, which in turn picked it up from Congress Daily PM:
Sure didn’t, did it? Guess he heard all the sturm und drang from the theocrats, loud and clear, and saw his hopes for the 2008 Presidential nomination slide towards oblivion.
Should be interesting to see how this plays out. Frist could turn the vote on Myers into his nuclear-option vote if he or the White House can twist the arms of two compromisers into changing their tune. And the White House is quite good at that.
Hopes for the 2008 nomination? You’ve got to be kidding. I consider him damaged goods, with no chance whatsoever of a Presidential nomination. There are many other Republicans I’d vote for before him.
He’s definitely got his hopes. They may not be realistic, but he has to be thinking about it.
Maybe. But I don’t think people like you control the Republican party anymore.
I would prefer four more years of GWB, if Frist was the only alternative. I despise GWB so that says a lot about my feelings for Frist.
Out of curiosity, are any of the big guns not damaged goods? Frist, Delay, and Santorum have all taken their share of hits lately.
On topic, I’m not surprised Frist took this less than well. He was completely bypassed on this one by McCain amongst others. Now he has to do something to look like he still has control.
Understood-when I made a statement about Sen. McCain, another learned Doper felt that “that ship has sailed”, but I’ll hold out for someone with what I feel is the credibility and honesty of Sen. McCain.
I wouldn’t vote for Frist, Delay, or Santorum if they ran for assistant picker-upper-of-White-House-pigeon-shit. We’ve got better than them in the Republican party-people with values who aren’t assholes about it.
If Frist wanted to save face, he should have commended the work of the fourteen Senators and highlighted “his” success in getting the two most controversial justices to a vote without a filibuster.
I hope that McCain chooses a woman as his running mate. I’m just itching to vote for him across party lines.
A year ago, I would have been right with you on that. But watching McCain since this time a year ago hasn’t exactly been edifying.
The problem is, who do you have that’s acceptable both to someone like you, and to the theocrats who have all the votes?
Like you, I can’t see Frist winning the GOP nomination. But Frist can (the thought crosses the mind of pretty much any Senator or governor at one time or another: why not me?, and being majority leader has elevated Frist’s visibility somewhat), and I have little doubt that that’s affecting his choices these days.
While I don’t agree with McCain’s politics, I dearly love the way that he handled this situation.
And I, in my less than expert role, would so very much like to see DeLay, Frist and Santorum slugging it out for the nomination. 'Twould make the slurs McCain suffered (crazed from his experiences as a POW &c) look like a fucking picnic while those three assholes competed to see who could be the bigger whore to the RR.
But then, I’m kinda perverse that way.
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As I’ve said before, I’d trust Frist about as far as I can throw a pickup truck.
Nice to see some compromise in the Senate for a change.
You’d expect Frist to be mad: his party is in the superior bargaining position and he expected to be able to say he delivered all the goods and dealt a big blow to the Democrats. Didn’t happen and it makes him look bad.
It’s a postponement, more than a compromise. Frist walked away grumbling that the nuclear option is still in his holster (he’s now calling it “the constitutional option.”) The dems still reserve the option to filibuster “in extraordinary circumstances.” The leaders of both parties were surely embarrassed by having their gunfight delayed.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who sees the parody potential in a “Frist-Santorum 2008” ticket.
If he does file for cloture I’m seeing the senate dems calling that an “extraordinary” situation and I’d be right there with them.
Actually, calling it the “constitutional” option is something that the Rs have been doing for some time. They once again feel that using a newer, less confrontational term makes them seem paragons of level-headedness.
That’s really double plus ungood.