Congress, Courts, Grist for Frist

Senator Frist is flat wrong when he says activist judges are attacking people of faith. He is confusing attack with defense, intentionally. He's turning the facts on their heads to pander to the extreme religious right because he's already started running for president and he needs their vote.  

In the instance of the Schiavo case, a slew of mostly conservative judges did their job and upheld the Constitution. But that's not how pandering pols presented it. They tarred the judges as "activists" because they knew it would get votes and divert attention away from their own ethics problems. 

Consider also that among the herd of judicial nominees Bill Frist wants to appoint to overrule "activists" are some that are radically pro-business. Frist needs business' money along with the religious right's vote to win the presidency. 

Just to get votes, Frist is willing to turn the Senate into a Taliban-like body by banning the filibuster. If he does this he'll be able to ram through extremist, anti-consumer, liberty-agnostic judicial appointments on a simple majority vote, and he'll have moved himself a peg closer to becoming the ruler of a corporate theocracy. 

Although religious extremists will appear to have won initially, when big business is firmly in control and no longer needs them, they will be jettisoned. Business will triumph because legal and environmental restraints will be lifted. History has shown however, that when business is left completely unrestrained, it will eat its own tail.