I am a read meat conservative on that one. Unusual for me, but there you have it. I want, inter alia, gay marriage to be enacted by legislatures, not by the Robes. Roe v Wade has to go too, for the same reason. It simply is toxic to the public square to resolve divisive social issues that way. The side that loses to the Robes feels screwed, and disenfranchised, for good reason, because they were/are/will be.
I'm with you. I'm a little leery about what will happen to the fillibuster rule on legislation if the Dems take over agin (God forbid), if the republicans win with the "nuclear" option, but I dont think Frist has much choice at this point. In for a dime, in for a dollar.
For your penance, my son, be mildly but not too nice to sinkspur on one occasion in the next year and say Kumbaya to him as though you mean it. Try to find an occasion when he seems somewhat Catholic.
[Insert Act of Contrition and penance which is also no one's bidness] Fr. Ninenot can add: No Buddy Holly music for the Elk for thirty days after being nice to sinkspur.