"Imagine a gentleman and you will have imagined everything that he is not"
-H.L. Mencken
In what is becoming an all too common focus on dog and pony shows orchestrated to attack Democrats and to otherwise paralyze the `House of Frist' the U.S. Senate today was tied up with the latest effort by the Republican one-party government to piss away time and money pandering to their base over yet another divisive issue that means absolutely dick. With our troops taking fire in a foreign land to ostensibly bring a repressed people such democratic values as `freedom of speech' the Frist Senate is once again engaged in doing everything that they possibly can in order to repress it in the homeland and just in time for the Fourth of July, of course I would never accuse Bill Frist of anything so cynical (sardonic laughter) and manipulative of American passions.
The always opportunistic Dr. Bill Frist of the HCA Frists was the winner in March of a much ballyhooed 2008 Straw Poll for the future leadership of the GOP and the heir to the anti-American jihad to tear down the long standing wall of separation between church and state. Frist has endured some rough going at times but still obviously the imminently corrupt, disreputable, double-dealing snake oil salesman still has an eye on the prize of the GOP nomination and a potential coronation as the future fuehrer in the fetus wars.
Given that Frist is a proud product of the very same state that canonized the legendary anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan who to this day still polls smack dab between Jesus Christ and Jack Daniels with the yahoos in the 'Volunteer State' for his role in fighting the evils of secular society during the Scopes Money Trial the two are somehow inexorably linked in the hearts and minds of the yokels in a relationship that transcends the test of time itself.
Never one to seem `unpatriotic' Karl Rove's handpicked replacement for the disgraced racist Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader Frist uses his position as often as possible (when not being featured at Christo-Fascist events to advocate for the killing of judges) to launch into blasts of inflammatory rhetoric about what it truly means to be American and distributing press releases like the following:
"Ever since the Boy Scouts first taught me how to care for our flag over 40 years ago, it has always held a special place in my heart"
Another `fine American', a man so patriotic that he wanted to amend the constitution to allow the son of a former Nazi to run for President also took the opportunity to wave the flag. This per Dana Milbank's column in the `Washington Post' on Senator Orin Hatch of Utah:
"They say that flag burning is a rare occurrence; it is not that rare," he told the chamber. An aide hoisted a large blue poster detailing 17 incidents of flag desecration over three years. Hatch, citing "an ongoing offense against common decency," read them all. "That's just mentioning some that we know of; there's a lot more than that, I'm sure," he said.
The day that Americans have to be lectured on values from a man who represents a state where polygamy is considered by many to be an acceptable practice is a sad day indeed. Maybe it's my bad sinuses but I just can't smell the apple pie over the overwhelming stench of bullshit. As far as what this all means to shoring up `the base' in the red states still mystifies me, after all the peckerwoods south of the Mason-Dixon line are much more loyal to a different flag than `Old Glory'.
Senator Frist has never met a gutbucket wedge issue that he couldn't exploit in order to distract from his true job as a courtier to George W. Bush, Karl Rove and by extension the `one percenters' or the wealthiest of the elite and the Corporate Supremacists (credit to Lou Dobbs for that excellent label) in ramming carrying their water on Capitol Hill.
Frist flip flops, triangulates and changes positions more often than John Kerry and Hillary Clinton playing a game of Twister and he ALWAYS succeeds in ramming through legislation that benefits the very few at the expense of the many while keeping the rabble focused on tearing out each other's throats rather than realized that they are being fleeced by Frist and his fellow millionaires in the government.
Whether it is his shameless `patriotic' pontification on this flag burning farce, his denouncing of war critics as cowards, traitors and terrorist sympathizers, making utterly dishonest public relations appearances like his dropping in as a `volunteer' in the woe that was the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina or leeching onto the dying body of poor Terri Schiavo to score points with the regressive bible thumpers he is always willing to do whatever it takes to serve his masters and toot his own horn as loudly as humanly possible.
He is a conniving flim-flam artist, pathological liar, charlatan and taffy faced professional reprobate who has the conscience of a kleptomaniac pedophile, the morals of a crack house prostitute and the charm of a time-share salesman seeking to fleece senior citizens out of their pensions while at the same time dabbling in burial plots which he is also eager to kick in as a part of the deal. He brings to mind Hunter S. Thompson's classic comment about Richard Nixon that he "was a man who could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time". Bill Frist never quite got the credit for his snakelike ability to slither his way into the hearts of the dead-ender, rapture watching, racist base of the Republican party as his oily counterpart Tom DeLay but he is just as rotten a son of a bitch only slightly more refined.
And while the flag-burning demagoguery sucks up the media attention Frist already is planning yet another relentless push to bestow immunity from inheritance taxes on the wealthiest of all tax chiselers with sliming in with a vote on the `ESTATE TAX' again tomorrow.
It's no wonder that the CLASS war is such a rout because of loyal soldiers like Dr. Bill Frist and Karl Rove is counting on him to deliver the prescription for what ails the GOP in time for the November elections.