The Nutball Express

From AmericaBlog. Bill Frist is displaying his inner wackologist:

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...

Some of the nation's most influential evangelical Protestants are participating in the teleconference in Louisville, including Dr. James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family; Chuck Colson, the born-again Watergate figure and founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries; and Dr. Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

The event is taking place as Democrats and Republicans alike are escalating their public relations campaigns in anticipation of an imminent confrontation. The Democratic minority has blocked confirmation of 10 of President Bush's judicial nominees by preventing Republicans from gaining the 60 votes needed to close debate, using the filibuster tactic often used by political minorities and most notoriously employed by opponents of civil rights.

Dr. Frist has threatened that the Republican majority might change the rules to require only a majority vote on nominees, and Democrats have vowed to bring Senate business to a standstill if he does.

On Thursday, one wavering Republican, Senator John McCain of Arizona, told a television interviewer, Chris Matthews, that he would vote against the change.

"By the way, when Bill Clinton was president, we, effectively, in the Judiciary Committee blocked a number of his nominees," Mr. McCain said.

McCain, who spent most of the last 12 months shamelessly pandering to the Xtian right (and all but becoming a suckerfish attached to George W. Bush's ass), is right. IIRC, hundreds of Clinton nominees languished in judicial purgatory, courtesy of the blue slip and anonymous hold--rules Frist and his ilk assume the public has forgotten (it also displays their utter contempt for the public--they act as if we can't recall the recent past). Assholes...

Speaking of, Tony Perkins, who unfortunately lives right here in Looisiana (and who, like most anti-evolutionists, displays a distinct LACK thereof) chirped:

"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," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and organizer of the telecast, wrote in a message on the group's Web site. "For years activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the A.C.L.U., have been quietly working under the veil of the judiciary, like thieves in the night, to rob us of our Christian heritage and our religious freedoms."

Did I say "chirped?" I actually meant to describe something more reptilian...let's see...how about "hissed?":

But Mr. Perkins stood by the characterization of Democrats as hostile to faith. "What they have done is, they have targeted people for reasons of their faith or moral position," he said, referring to Democratic criticisms of nominees over their views of cases about abortion rights or public religious expressions.

"The issue of the judiciary is really something that has been veiled by this 'judicial mystique' so our folks don't really understand it, but they are beginning to connect the dots," Mr. Perkins said in an interview, reciting a string of court decisions about prayer or displays of religion.

No, Tony, they've opposed people who, if appointed to the judiciary, would rule contrary to the Constitution. You see, the Constitution, the basic law of the land, SEPARATES church and state--and that's a GOOD thing--for BOTH church AND state.

God, if god exists, gave you a brain--sadly, it seems to be a little less refined than most, but with practice, it could open up a whole new world. God, if god exists, gave you that brain for purposes of use. Shame you don't bother...and the same goes for you, Cat Killer.