Here's what he said on Faux yesterday!
HUME: ... is now off the table. However, let us look ahead, Senator Warner, and posit a situation in which we're past these three judges who were enumerated in the deal, and another of the judges already nominated, or a new one comes along, and Democrats announce they're going to filibuster. What happens then?
WARNER: Well, let's go back to your opening statement. This filibuster rule that we preserved by virtue of this framework — clearly in the agreement, and I've got a copy here, the constitutional option, which we call it, is not off the table. And we all 14 understand that. It is very much on the table.
To use an example, we simply unscrewed the fuse. But that fuse can be put back in if we detect that it's not extraordinary circumstances, but we're back to where the Democrats begin to trot out and do a leadership-led type of series of filibusters.
At that point, senators, seven senators of which I was one, any one or more of them may say, "Time out. I'm not satisfied that this is extraordinary circumstances as a matter of good conscience. I'm going to give leader Bill Frist the vote." And then Frist can ascertain whether or not he wants to use that constitutional measure.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157576,00.htmlWith DeWine, Graham, and now Warner, that moves us to 51 the number of senators willing to go nuclear.
The first time we filibuster, they're going to go nuclear. Count on it.
This deal was nothing more than a PR move for the GOP, they'll be in a better position to go nuclear when they can blast all over TV that the mean old Democrats reneged on the much vaulted agreement.
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