Dissidents’ Detainee Bill May Face Filibuster (WaPo):

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist signaled yesterday that he and other White House allies will filibuster a bill dealing with the interrogation and prosecution of detainees if they cannot persuade a rival group of Republicans to rewrite key provisions opposed by President Bush.
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Frist (R-Tenn.) acknowledged that a majority of the 100 senators back the rival group on military commissions but that there are not enough to block a filibuster, which requires a super-majority of 60.

Those champions of journalism Charles Babington and Jonathan Weisman managed to write a story about Frist threatening a filibuster without mentioning that Frist was ready to kill the right to filibuster with the nuclear option. UP OR DOWN VOTE!!!!!!!!

If they can train chimps to remember combinations of words, why can’t Post reporters Babington and Weisman recall that the union of “Frist” and “filibuster” has historical significance? And while we’re at it, why do Beavis and Butthead even bother putting the Rs after peoples’ names when not even one Democrat was mentioned in their little homework assignment?

That’s some fine work, boys. Keep it up.