The Volunteer State embarrassment continues:
The Republican leader, Bill Frist (Tenn.), was asked why he, the head of the anti-filibuster movement, had voted to uphold the filibuster of a judge in 2000. Frist at first stammered — “Mr. President, the, in response, the Paez nomination, we’ll come back and discuss it” — and then settled on an answer: “It’s not the cloture votes, per se,” he said, using the term for filibuster-breaking votes. “It’s the partisan leadership-led use of cloture to kill, to defeat, to assassinate these nominees.”
Kill? Assassinate? My, what language! Did Dr. Frank Luntz recommend this talk to woo the religious rightists as we march toward 2008?