Right Side Redux has the video of Senator Frist’s response to a question that starts off with Harry Potter and ends up asking when the GOP in the Senate is going to get some backbone. It’s a cute question and Frist answers it with boilerplate about being a leader of a conservative movement, yadda, yadda, yadda. He doesn’t have an answer for the part about getting some backbone because he so obviously is finding his weakened more and more each week.

It’s gotten to the point that, in a week when Democrats and some Republicans have launched an all-out attack on the conduct of the war in Iraq and the GOP’s domestic agenda is stalled in both houses, Frist is out there stating that asbestos legislation will be the “Senate’s top priority” in 2006. We’re at war; Congressmen and Senators are talking about deadlines for pulling out and this guy’s top priority is asbestos? Geesh!

(Cross posted at Betsy’s Page)