President Frist

I know this same idea is being posted over on Kos right now, but it's real interesting to see where he stands in the Republican party. The GOP is increasingly being taken over by far right religious fanatics, and the positions that the GOP is openly avowing reflect this change more and more. Now Frist is going to speak at a Christian telecast to decry the Democrats for blocking Bush's judicial nominees (all 10 of them, Bush's nominees have the highest pass rate ever, both in absolute and percentage, and here are profiles on some the ones the Democrats are blocking - nasty, nasty Democrats). The interesting thing is that the GOP is now framing this as the Democrats attack on people of faith.

Let's face it, the judicial battle has as much to do with people of faith as Iraq had to do with WMDs... crap. The president of the Family Research Council is quoted in this NYT article as saying

"As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism,"

Now hold on just a second there. The courts are no bastion for liberalism. They are the place in the country where law is made and enforced. They are taking their cues from precedent and the constitution. If you don't like the constitution then you can pack up your bags and leave because this country's law derives from it. Don't let this idiot confuse the terms of the argument. The judge who ruled against Schiavo's family is a conservative appointee, not a rampant progressive of any sort. He followed the law of the land, not a cracked out interpretation of the Bible (which is not the law of the land).

I don't know who will get the Republican nomination in 2008, but it is clear that Frist is making a play to the right, or is being forced to because he can't ignore them. At least there's evidence that shows this right wing Christian bloc is shrinking as a percentage of the populace. How long will it be before the people of this country wake up and realize that the GOP is pushing this insane agenda?