Ramesh’s post highlights something that’s been bugging me for a long time. Frist’s decison to change the rules is not the nuclear option. The nuclear option is Harry Reid’s. He can decide whether to respond nuclear-ly or not. If China invades Taiwan despite America’s threat that we may use nuke’s in response, by way of a terrible illustration, that doesn’t mean China’s decision to invade constituted a nuclear option. If we decided to respond with nukes it would. It is the Democrat’s choice to “blow up” the Senate. The news that it’s dawning on the Democrats that this was as much a dangerous bluff as it was a sure threat only serves to demonstrate that.