Rep. Martin Frost was a conservative Democrat who got redistricted out by Tom DeLay's mid-decade shenanigans—the same ones that landed him in federal prison. He promptly found a perch on Fox News, where he could help the Fox agenda by agreeing with Republicans about all the nasty things Democrats were doing.
So this, written by him, is a bit of a surprise:
Ten years ago, the Taliban in Afghanistan destroyed two gigantic figures of Buddha, carved into a hillside 18 centuries before. The world was aghast at this barbarian act taken in the name of religious purity. But was powerless to stop it.
We now have a group of U.S. politicians seeking political purity, who seem to have much in common with the Taliban. They are tea party members; and because of blind adherence to smaller government, they seem intent on risking destroying what American political leaders have constructed in more than two centuries of hard, often painful work. Like the Taliban, they see compromise as an unacceptable alternative.
Weenie liberals everywhere must be getting the vapors!
Then again, I'm a Dirty Fucking Hippy, so what do I know? It's just funny that now, even a K Street corporatist Fox News Democrat sees the correlation.