Bill Frist's Office Changes Poll Question on Site After Closing Poll!
Trouble in Texas
Sean says it all right here, with screenshots. It's despicable.
As Bill Frist's judicial slumber party took off in Washington, his official website sponsored a poll about the situation. But in a stunning display of pettiness, they solicited votes for one question, and then displayed the results under a different question.
The first question was this: Should the Senate minority block the body's Constitutional duty to provide the President's judicial nominees with an up or down vote?
Those in favor of the judicial nominees being blocked would have voted No, although they would have been wrong to do so. I would say that the minority has a Constitutional duty to take their "advice and consent" on such matters seriously. On several of Bush's deficient nominees, the minority has done so.
This is their Constitutional privilege, and denying them the power of filibuster strikes at the heart of the Constitution. Bill Frist's shameful power play should sober all Tennesseans as to the character of our representative.
When the poll closed after 106,285 votes, the Yes category led over the No category 54% to 46%. It's sad that around 50,000 people would deny a seminal Constitutional right to the minority party in the Senate, but there it was. But Frist's office had a plan.
They changed the question when reporting the poll numbers!
Now the question reads: Should the Senate perform its Constitutional duty to provide the President's judicial nominees with an up or down vote?
The question is clearly different, and now misleads about the real nature of the poll.
The poll, of course, was not scientific; it was done to promote the slumber party around the Internet. Liberal and conservative surfers alike will inform their friends about such polls and try to overwhelm the other side. It's a cybernetic tug-of-war.
But for Frist's office to play these kind of memory-hole games with the facts is beneath contempt. What ickle toady-toads they are...
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