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WILL HE OR WON’T HE?

April 29, 2006

All eyes seem to be on Bill Frist and the question is why? Is it there for the obvious reasons: considering the nuclear option? Or, is it there because the powers that be behind the Republican scene want to increase his political stock ahead of 2008?

So, what’s up with this nuclear option anyway? Sounds pretty explosive doesn’t it: no pun intended. And I do believe we have a very valid issue at stake here. Our founding fathers were very concerned about the whole separation of powers issue; though no politician today seems to get their drift.

The real issue is over how much power the Senate (and even a committee within the Senate) should have over recommendations to the judiciary by the executive branch. Didn’t the founding fathers have in mind the intent that when the executive branch submits to the legislative branch, a recommendation to the judiciary branch, that that legislative branch would vote on it? Or did the founding fathers have in mind that a judiciary committee could prevent the legislative branch as a whole from the ability to vote?

Ahh, it’s all of the rules that we’ve come up with thinking how smart we are, and eventually showing we don’t know squat (Hebrew for nada).

So, will he or won’t he? Will Bill Frist step forward and push the red button. Or does he actually have the power (votes) to do that? Then there’s the longer-larger question. Will he or won’t he run for President in 2008?

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary 

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