Jeffrey Dubner uses ham-handed tactics employed against the senators from Maine to make a point that I'm really surprised doesn't get raised more often as part of the filibuster debate. Bill Frist is inept. He's the least impressive Senate leader I've seen since I started following politics. Mitchell, Dole, Lott, Daschle - all could run circles around him. Many, many, many circles. Frist has 55 Republican senators and can get extraordinarily little accomplished. It's kind of astounding.
Tom DeLay plays with the rules because he can, and because he's the kind of guy who'll never settle for 999 of something if he can get 1000. Bill Frist plays with the rules because he lacks the basic political skills needed to accomplish even just one or two things of note withot turning over decades of precedents and procedures.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - The Democrats in the Senate are going to miss him when he's gone.
Posted by armand at May 6, 2005 01:54 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics