Angst on Christian right over Frist

Angst on right over Frist:

"Frustration is mounting among social conservatives over the Senate’s and Majority Leader Bill Frist’s (R-Tenn.) failure this year to schedule votes on legislation important to the movement.

The Family Research Council (FRC), one of the most prominent pressure groups representing Christian evangelical voters, dropped the Senate from its annual congressional scorecard because the chamber voted on not one bill the group cares about.
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“They didn’t have anything that we saw as family votes,” he added. “Sometimes it seems like we got more done during the Reagan administration when didn’t have control or during the Clinton administration when we didn’t have the administration on our side. There is a level of frustration especially among our grassroots.”

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“For a good period of time he was very receptive to the social agenda,” said Weyrich of Frist. “It seems after the Schiavo case that he hasn’t been as interested. I don’t know whether a connection is there or not.”"