I had a piece appear in the Shreveport (LA) Times yesterday on the

subject of Mary Landrieu’s support for judicial filibusters. On the same subject, Bill Frist appeared on ABC’s

This Week on Sunday and had this exchange with George Stephanopoulos:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Finally Sir, judges. You heard Senator Reid there,
filibusters are back and he says Republicans will rue the day if they use
the so-called nuclear option to prevent filibusters. Do you have enough
Republican votes to carry out that option if you want to?
SENATOR BILL FRIST: Yeah, first of all, the nuclear option was in the last
Congress where 200 years of tradition and precedent were destroyed by the
other side of the aisle by not giving a nominee from the president who has
majority support an up or down vote. First time in 200, 200 years, and that
happened in the last Congress. That was the big change. My goal, working
with Harry Reid who I have tremendous respect for, in this new climate –
optimistic climate — looking ahead to basically just agree that every
nominee coming from the president who — judicial nominee, not legislative
filibuster but judicial nominees — who make it through the system, not only
do they not have to be approved, but all they have to agree to do is give
them an up or down vote, and I think that that’s what we’ll see. I think
everybody wants to be more reasonable. The American people deserve it.
That’s what they want.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, we’ll see if you’re right. Senator Frist, thank
you very much.