new filibuster deal?

looks like Frist still hasn't managed to herd all of the cats.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050520/ap_on_go_co/filibuster_fight

Byrd, Warner, McCain, and DeWine.

The article includes Santorum's Hitler quote (soccer goal voice: SCOOOOORE).

The compromise sucks, of course. But that it's still being worked out suggests - to me at least - that there's enough Republican holdouts to deep six the nuclear option, and Bill Frist along with it.