Silly?
No, I am not being silly.
The pro-life cause took a massive shellacking last week due to the collapse of Republican will in 6 different branches of government (3 federal, 3 state).
About the only saving hope in any of it was that the Republicans in the Senate would steel themselves to pass the Nuclear Option and thereby change the composition of the Judiciary.
Frist just gave us the finger.
Will he pass the Nuclear Option?
Does he sound like a man who has that in mind?
Anyway, when he fails, the coalition is done, because discouraged and defeated pro-lifers are not going to turn out in anything like the numbers they have in the past. The Republican Party has been forced by event to make a choice. I think that pro-lifers still don't fully believe that the party has chosen to leave them behind and seek new coalition partners, but then along comes Frist and makes a comment like that, not designed to calm the waters but to basically tell the pro-lifers that we are full of it when it comes to what happened to Terri Schiavo.
In other words, he doesn't represent us, and doesn't want to.
How can we continue to vote for people like that?
Many of us can't.
They had one clear shot to get out of the mess of last week.
Frist is the man who has to do it.
He has no intention of doing any such thing.
You fool. The 11th Circuit Federal Appeals Court which three or four times rejected Terri's claims is the most conservative court in the US. We want courts like the 11th which are strict constructionists and dont invent rights. We have enough activist Godless judges on the left. We dont need to create religious zealot activist judges too.
now that they are no longer of any use to Karl Rove's strategery.