Just when you think Frist can't sink any lower....

Of course, what I WOULD have wanted to call this post, had the Corrente gang not thought of it first, was "The Stark Frist of Removal". But they got it first, so we have to play it straight.

But here's Doctor (and I use the term loosely) Bill "Cat Killer AIDS From Tears And Sweat" Frist, casting his "nuclear option" about the filibuster as a religious war, pitting "people of faith" against Godless liberals and heathen who might dare to oppose the kind of insane wingnuts that Jeebus H. Bush is sending up to Capitol Hill for lifetime appointments on the bench.

Basically the deal is that this so-called "man of science" is going to appear in a telecast set up by James Dobson's Family Research Council, and claim that "the filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now being used against people of faith."

Of course he doesn't say how, other than the fact that there are still a handful of Democrats with a conscience who still remember their oaths of office, which including upholding the Constitution -- including that pesky First Amendment which up till now has kept these lunatics from turning this country into a Christian version of a Middle Eastern theocracy. But this is tossing the kind of red meat at the base for which it has an insatiable appetite.

The mere fact that it's gone this far indicates that the Democrats had damn well better stop looking to how they can appeal to the inmates in the asylum and start reaching out to mainstream religious figures, who understand that my right to abort an unwanted pregnancy in no way compels them to do the same; that my right to have nonprocreative sex in no way compels them to do the same (though maybe they'd knock it off if they were getting laid every now and then); that my right to worship a goddess, or myself, or "Bob", or chumbawumba or Elvis or Tiger Woods or William Shatner or Pac-Man or Smeg or Simba the Lion King or even rock 'n' roll itself (which actually makes the most sense) in no way prevents them from regarding the Bible as the literal word of God, and Joshua of Nazareth as being the literal son of God who died so that fundamentalist politicians and other holier-than-thous could cheat on their wives, embezzle money, and steal food out of the mouths of the poor.