Breaking with senate tradition, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) campaigned against Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in his home state of South Dakota last November on behalf of Daschle’s opponent John Thune.  Senator Daschle lost, the first time in 52 years that a Senate leader was defeated.  Frist’s unseemly partisan involvement, against Senate tradition, is credited with Dashcle’s downfall.

Now we are subjected to the spectacle of Frist waxing morally indignant over the democrat Harry Reid’s shutdown of the Senate to get the Republican’s attention on an agreement that they have ignored for the last 20 months.  Frist is angry because he wasn’t consulted first.  This hasn’t happened under Rule 21 in some time.  Now Frist has the unmitigated gall to nash his teeth and rend his garments over this violation of Senate tradition. 

How hypocritical is that?  I suppose it’s time for another Nuclear Option from the Republicans to muzzle the minority in Congress.