Angst on right over Frist

[kskiska]

Frustration is mounting among social conservatives over the Senate’s and Majority Leader Bill Frist’s (R-Tenn.) failure this year to schedule votes on legislation important to the movement.

The Family Research Council (FRC), one of the most prominent pressure groups representing Christian evangelical voters, dropped the Senate from its annual congressional scorecard because the chamber voted on not one bill the group cares about.

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“They didn’t have anything that we saw as family votes,” he added. “Sometimes it seems like we got more done during the Reagan administration when didn’t have control or during the Clinton administration when we didn’t have the administration on our side. There is a level of frustration especially among our grassroots.”

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“For a good period of time he was very receptive to the social agenda,” said Weyrich of Frist. “It seems after the Schiavo case that he hasn’t been as interested. I don’t know whether a connection is there or not.”

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[SharonAnn]

1. He got plenty of Corporate benefit stuff done. That's what he's

there for.

He only uses the Religious wRong when he wants their votes. He's not the least bit interested in pushing their agenda.

Oh, and he's corrupt and incompetent, too.

[VegasWolf]

5. LOL! Well said! nt

:toast:

[Bandit]

2. Are those Christians too stupid to realize that if their issues get passed

There will be nothing left to beat Liberals about the head with. Republicans are not about to let that happen. Most every issue the Christian Right wants desperately have a better chance of coming into being by Democratic legislation than GOP. GOP only wants the fundies for their noise and not for their beliefs.They really are a bunch of dumb shits aren't they?

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Apparently, these fundie groups didn't realize they were being

used just to siphon votes from Democratic candidates. Maybe they should consider looking at how a candidate acts instead of just accepting self-proclaimed Christians as actually being what they profess. I wonder how this will affect their votes in future elections. Will they see that the legislation that is near and dear to their hearts won't be acted upon since that would mean a loss of a issue to use against liberals? I doubt it.

[HereSince1628]

4. Maybe Frist and Co. are afraid of their own base?

They are even more like the DLC that I thought :evilgrin:

[MissMarple]

6. "family votes" fundy speak for "return of the patriarchy".

Why don't these guys just speak plainly and say they promote a very narrow, patriarchal type of family? And that leads directly to the type of families produced in the polygamous Mormon enclaves in southern Utah and Arizona. Each family has a "patriarch" who is told who he may or may not marry by the uber patriarch in charge. It's all about control.

“They didn’t have anything that we saw as family votes,” he added.

And the reasons why Frist didn't get any of these things to a vote:

"Frist’s aides say that Democrats have held up the cord-blood bill and that Republican senators have signed off on it.

The Senate was going to vote on legislation affecting the interstate transportation of minors but Hurricane Katrina “hijacked” the calendar, a Frist aide said."

Oh, please. :eyes:

[adigal]

7. I just called his office three times and was hung up on

when I asked why he was not involved with that poor little girl in Massachusetts (Haleigh Poutre) whose father beat her into a coma, and now wants her kept on life support, while the state wants her removed. Three times they hung up on me!! I guess she doesn't count for some reason - not like Terri Schiavo counted.

[Brooklyn Michael]

8. "I don’t know whether a connection is there or not.”

After Frist got gob-smacked for sticking his neck out for you nuts in the Schiavo fiasco...not to mention his ludicrous claims on getting AIDS from tears....you don't know if there's a connection there? :rofl:

Here's a hint:

there is

[Loonman]

9. Maybe he needed more "Duke" money

Cunningham was spreading his take around, right?