Hitting Bottom?

Polly & the Mooch readers may recall Mr. Mooch's rant recently about judges and the extreme behavior of the GOP in appointing judges. the fact that a handful of Bush's judicial picks weren't rubber stamped is just too much to stand (less than 5%). that handful of judges was blocked by (or threat of) the filabuster. This has so enraged the GOP leadership that they are considering what's been called "The Nuclear Option" of getting rid of the filabuster all together. this would eliminate the oldest, most powerful tool of the minority party to protect minority interests (regardless of party).

Apparently Sen. Bill Frist (R, TN) will soon be leading the charge on this matter. so just HOW do they plan to push the PR on this? they already have the AM radio screech boxes going, so what's the next step?

Accuse Democrats of ATTACKING CHRISTIANITY!

you heard right! The Senate Majority Leader is joining the Right Wing Christian group called The Family Resource Council and their leader Dr. James Dobson for a telecast concentrating on how the Democrats use "the filibuster against people of faith". They would like to convince enough supporters that the Democrats are using the filabuster to stop judges that operate using "Christian Values", as if that were the case and as if those judges were, in fact, godly. Neither is true.

Dr. Dobson has a vivid political history in the last decade and a half. Unfortunately, his Christian organization is little devoted to acting on the actual teachings of Christ, but more to the conversion of people and ideas to their version of what is holy and godly. In the last decade they've tended to value working for prayer in school, ending abortion, and fighting homosexuality more than providing christian charity to the needy, desperate, and helpless in our society. the least among us. today, headlinging their website, you can see how instead of humanitarian aid to the tsunami victims, they're distributing a million booklets (to the non-christians) about "when god doesn't make sense". a hard look at this 'Family' oriented website shows that they ignore the most basic of family needs (in this country or others): food and shelter. Evidently, to these people, fighting over judges and senate rules is more of a family value than fighting hunger.
(thanks to Swirly for her input).