In a page right out of the Mark Warner/Preston Bryant playbook, Senate Democrats and a dozen centrist Senate Republicans, led by–who else?–John McCain–have handed Bush and Frist their backsides in a ringing repudiation of the Republican Right’s my-way-or-the-highway philosophy of governance. Frist fired his vaunted nuclear option, all right–into his foot. Who are the winners? America! America! God bless America!