Frist Getting Ready to Make His Move?

It's beginning to look as though Bill Frist may have the cajones after all. This from the Washington Post:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is all but certain to press for a rule change that would ban filibusters of judicial nominations in the next few weeks, despite misgivings by some of his fellow Republicans and a possible Democratic backlash that could paralyze the chamber, close associates said yesterday.

Frist feels he has no acceptable options to seeking the rule change unless there is a last-minute compromise, which neither party considers plausible, according to senators and aides close to the situation. "I think it's going to happen," Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said this week, although he would prefer that Frist wait to allow more legislation to pass before the Senate explodes in partisan recriminations. Aides privy to senior Republicans' thinking concur with Thune.

Drudge has this.

If he has the votes, it's time to act. The best thing that could happen to the Republican Party is for the Democrats to attempt a legislative shutdown, a Jim Jones style political mass suicide.