HMO Frist Hits SDakota

Bill Frist visited SD. He was here to attack Sen. Tom Daschle. This was the first time in 50 years that a Senate Majority Leader campaigned against a Minority Leader in his home state.

Nothing is beneath the current crop of Republican thugs. But, Frist comes from a really big money background. HMO runs in his family blood. He is the perfect GOP big money apologist. He springs from the greediest wing of the party coupled with a reactionary radical view of how to pervert the Constitution, the Courts, and the Executive Departments into the best tools for big money and influentials with big money. Coupled with that is a willingness to exploit religious fundamentalism for the most un-Christian goals. Republicans like Frist are part of the "Southern" GOP strategy to exploit racism for votes in areas of the country where the KKK was once a powaerful force. They are also part of the GOP "Northern" strategy which is designed to separate good-hearted Catholics who view government as a tool for all people and not just the richest by convincing them that heaven and earth will collapse in a heap if some unfortunate female must have a legal abortion. Those "Southern" and "Northern" divisive strategies are deceptive and despicable.

He was attacking Sen. Daschle as an obstructionist. I guess I don't view that as a bad thing if Daschle is showing the backbone to resist mediocre ideologue judicial appointments and anti-democratic GOP attacks on Bill of Rights freedoms.