[IHateCats]

Highly probable and is likely to be even more of a threat since there still isn't much widespread opposition to this on it's merits, it's being opposed by Warner, etc to protect committee turf & bipartisanship on high profile DOD authorization. Frist isn't likely to face as powerful of a chokepoint as the Armed Services committee & percieved need for bipartisanship when US troops are deployed in harms way with the few bills that will be pushed during lame duck. At this point our best hope is that Dems crush in the elections and then are rejuvinated enough to block Frist on pretty much everything in the lame duck session out of general orneriness.