http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2005/04/19/m14a_fristedit_0419.htmlDuring the Terri Schiavo spectacle, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., claimed that he could diagnose the brain-damaged woman from a videotape. By pandering to groups that would establish an American theocracy, Sen. Frist commits more political quackery.
This Sunday, Sen. Frist will address, through a videotape, what the Family Research Council calls "Judicial Sunday," an event that Protestant fundamentalists will stage in Louisville, Ky., to pressure senators who oppose any of President Bush's nominees for the federal courts. The council, which opposes abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and legal status for homosexual couples, is preaching demagoguery by claiming that those who oppose the president's nominees are "against people of faith." By lending his name, Sen. Frist joins that demagoguery.
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No one would argue that the filibuster is a national political icon; its burial, on negotiated terms, would be welcome. In this case, however, President Bush and some Republicans want to end the filibuster only to keep Democrats from blocking some of the White House's far-right choices. Having used homosexuals as the red meat for religious fundamentalists last year, the GOP has found fresh chum
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As the Brookings study indicated, a president's best record usually comes at the start of a term, which explains why the White House and its allies are pressing now. Among the candidates supposedly blocked on religious grounds is William G. Myers, who as a lawyer for miners and ranchers argued that the Clean Water Act is unconstitutional. One would assume that religious groups support protection for God's creations, but that would assume that faith is the real issue. Actually, it's politics, and Sen. Frist has lined up on the wrong side.
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