When's The Shootout?

Why does Frist think 84% of Texas voters are reliably representative of the entire country given the cesspool that politics happens to be in that state?

Americans do not believe in a government where all power is abdicated to the executive. If a monarchy, that would be crowning -- if otherwise a totalitarian nation, a dictator-- we need neither.

Mr. Frist do not persist in attempting to destroy the rights of a minority party that is nearly equivalent in population distribution as far as voting participation is concerned. You are attempting to impose the tyranny of the majority. If you and your leaders would propose nominees that were 49% liberal/centrist and 51
% moderate/conservative, relative to the two major parties then you could really claim acting in honest bipartisanship.

The problem is in the practice of any means to an end in obtaining the national offices in the executive and legislative branches. The tipping faction is acknowledged to be the extreme religious right, both Cheney and Rove have admitted as much, now the zealots want their pound of flesh. And you Mr. Frist are pandering to this effort, a la your taped message to the recent meeting where you apparently did not want the added burden of personally attending.

Transferring any power to these extremist elements is threatening the very structures that enable government to work in our system. You should be resisting them, but since you appear to have more political ambition than backbone - the current spectacle of breaking long standing senate rules and changing the functional protocols of tools available to the minority, you are undermining the very institution you are appointed to provide leadership, not authoritarian impositions.

Perhaps you should give a lot of thought to the events in the other House, the American public pushed back hard and now the hijacking of the Rules committee over there is being ended rightfully by a rollback to original intent. Hopefully this will result in proper investigation of allegations of Mr. DeLay's misconduct and/or possible criminal indictment in a case in Texas where many of his political associates have been involved.

You should backtrack now while you can, and eliminate theis effort to deprive the minority of the minimal opportunity they have to resist overwheming misuse of power by the majority. Ask your executive boss to use a mix of nominees that is reflective of the population of voters and not simply party payoff selections.

lenal