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Agape Press is reporting that a deal has unexpectedly been arranged:

[T]he senior senator from Mississippi has arranged a deal that would effectively prevent Majority Leader Bill Frist from invoking the constitutional option --- sometimes referred to as the "nuclear option" --- to stop the Democrats' continued filibuster against the president's conservative judicial nominees.… Lott and five other GOP senators will join six Democrats in the arrangement. "The deal, which Senator Lott vigorously denied yesterday, proposes that four of the ten filibustered judges would be confirmed -- but that the filibuster would remain intact," the Focus on the Family founder says.

Personally, I have no problem with striking a deal, if it's a fair one. David Broder recently outlined a very fair deal, and so did Sen. Frist. Neither of those deals would have dumped any majority-supported judicial nominees.