QUOTE OF THE DAY: Senator Bill Frist

Our Republican friends and readers (but not the libertarians) have been emailing us repeatedly insisting that the GOP’s threatened “nuclear option” to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominees does NOT really represent changing any rules or setting any new precedent.



So we found this quote by Senator Bill Frist in USA Today interesting:



“There are times in history where you have to change either the rules or the precedent based on external behavior,” he said Friday.