Frist Panders to Relligious Right on Nuclear Option

From Light Up The Darkness:

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=725

The Republicans are continuing with the formula they used in the 2004 elections--pandering to the religious right to try to squeak by with a narrow majority. What has worked in the short run will likely doom the Republicans long term as the center continues to move towards the Democrats. The New York Times reports on how Frist is attempting to use religion to push his political agenda.

Or maybe things are not as they appear. Many believe Frist is a vote or two short on the Nuclear Option. It isn't even certain that a majority is sufficient to bring about such a major rules change in the Senate. With Democrats threatening to block all other legislation if Frist goes through with the nuclear option, some in the Corporate Welfare branch of the GOP are hoping that Frist fails, knowing they have a lot to lose in a paralyzed Senate.

Perhaps Frist is going before the religious right at this time anticipating a failure on the nuclear option. He could then tell them he did everything he could to change the rules to facilitate the appointment of more conservative judges, and then return to business as usual as the Congress continues to redistribute the nation's wealth to the ultra-wealthy. Stringing along the religious right while throwing them an occasional bone wouldn't be a new strategy for the Republicans, considering that it was their usual policy pre-Bush.

From the New York Times:

Frist Set to Join Religious Effort on Judicial Issue

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK


WASHINGTON, April 14 - As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees.

Fliers for the telecast, organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate at a Kentucky megachurch the evening of April 24, call the day "Justice Sunday" and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the other. The flier does not name participants, but under the heading "the filibuster against people of faith," it reads: "The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now being used against people of faith."

Organizers say they hope to reach more than a million people by distributing the telecast to churches around the country, over the Internet and over Christian television and radio networks and stations.

I am really getting sick of this.

article - from a conservative forum, no less - on hand to show Frist's hypocracy:

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=504

HCA does not trumpet its reported involvement with abortion. But, in April, Catholic Financial Services Corporation (CFSC), a mutual fund company, announced that it was starting an S&P 500 Index Fund that would "exclude companies on the abortion issue"�and that HCA was one of only six companies on the index that would be excluded on these grounds. A spokesman for the mutual fund explained to me last week that the company excludes hospital chains that perform abortions and pharmaceutical companies that deal in drugs that induce abortion.

The whole article smacks of poor journalism, but, hey, fundies like that, don't they?

Or did America lose it's mind last year during election season? 9/11 made people more religious/spiritual but this is nuts. I think I know what Bin Laden said last year with his statement that he will bring us down. 9/11 would get fundies in an uproar over time and this maybe how he planned to do us in.

Thanks, Bin Laden. I guess the Taliban can never be truely destroyed.

terrorism will never go away bush needs to leave iraq in peace.

Stand up for the Constitution???

This is absolutely insane. I guess we can hope this backfires as badly as Schiavo did.

Christian Right or anything right, there is absolutely nothing right about them. I think the fact that they get called that kinda makes them sound a little more cushy.

Maybe Religious Hate Mongers would be best

I doubt anyone in the Dem establishment on the Hill will do anything to stop this. I think they will cave on the filibuster deal. I would hope that people would right to the Dems in the Senate and any so called moderates on the right and say "I'm mad as hell and I don't want to live in a theocracy!" somebody should start slinging the word Theocracy around more on the floor of the Congress. STOP THE MADNESS, we are not by constitution a theocracy and in fact if Frist would read the damn thing we are a nation of laws that separate church from state. I am so sick of the Repugs claiming they are God's party. It's totally insane!
Someone has to stop this, maybe it's time to take to the streets in mass protest. They do it all the time. We should be ready to march on Washington soon to put a stop to all this crap!


RedTail Wolf

These people are crazy.

The Democrats need to respond strongly and loudly to this and make common cause with the majority of people who do not want the likes of Tom DeLay and Bill Frist mandating their personal behavior based on a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Perhaps some ads with mainstream religious leaders pointing out how dangerous these people really are.