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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said in an interview on Friday that a vote on the constitutional option is “almost inevitable" before Memorial Day. In the same interview, Frist said the following about the ongoing debate over that option:

There's been an attempt to pigeonhole the debate into being some sort of extremist --- using their words, "radical Republican" or "evangelical" --- debate. It's smart ...in that it takes the attention off the fundamental principle of an up or down vote. It is wrong because that is not what's driving it.

What's driving the debate, of course, is a desire to see traditional principles of good government prevail over an unprecedented attempt to deny up or down votes for judicial nominees who clearly have majority support.