Ya know...

...August has it right...

Amidst all this celebration over Bill Frist being made to look like a complete asswipe who has no control over his own party dominated by right-wing religious fundamentalist extremists, most people left-of-moderate haven't really noted that the sudden success of the "moderate" John McCain is, you know, a really bad thing.

In fact, the whole notion that the filibuster compromise was something brought about by 'moderates' at all. It was a coalition of conservative Democrats and some of the last conservative holdouts against the destructionists who've captured control of the Republican Party. Kind of impressive, actually, that for once conservatives rallied to, umm, conserve something…