Oh Bill Frist Where Art Thou?
Written by Mark Harris on April 15th, 2005Apparently Bill Frist has agreed to be apart of a religous service urging the end to the filibuster’s use against “the people of faith”. Instapundit who I do not usually agree with on these type of issue is extremely concerned and so are other “independents.”
I have already said I oppose using the “nuclear” option because I think that it is against the nature of the Senate and I would proudly filibuster a crazy liberal judge so why should we tell them to do any differently. Yet this technique seems even more wrong headed. If FRC wants to demagogue about anti-Christian bias (which certainly exists) then let them but we should not indulge it in this way. We don’t believe in the culture of victimization and rail against this stuff all the time when liberals do it. I have osciliated between being a Catholic and an evangelical on multiple occasions so I have sympathy for the cause, but this is not the way to achieve it.
I am certainly no libertarian, in fact at times I fear them more than liberals, but this is just bad PR and bad policy. If anyone needed any more reasons to pray that Bill Frist is not the GOP nominee ‘08 here is another one.
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Frist has backed himself into a corner on this one. If he does nothing, he looks weak and inneffective. If he takes the “nuclear” option, win or lose, he will be viewed as an extremist and will probably have killed his presidential hopes. Sucks to be him.
BSR
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Frist is a tool whose ambition is larger than his brain. Prepare to watch a classic political flame out.
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