Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was overheard at the American Farm Bureau Federation conference in Nashville Tennessee mentioning that if Democrats move to filibuster Sam Alito, he will invoke the nuclear option. Clearly, he is uninterested in the compromise reached before the confirmation hearings in 2005.
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Get this news out! This isn't a surprise, to be sure, but Democrats have largely forgotten the possibility - a possibility that is quite real! The danger posed here is self evident - though it is a question if the party's leadership can still pull it together. Bill Frist would have a slightly harder time getting the Senators that were 'on the fence' to come over - though he didn't suggest that was going to be a problem.