Is Bill Frist really that dumb or is he trying to paralyse Democrats with laughter ?
Via Hunter at the Daily Kos. Rather than allow votes on amendments to, among other things, ban torture Bill Frist pulled the defence spending bill- The Senate should get back to it in September, but, for now will consider a bill protecting hand gun manufacturers from lawsuits. Frist claims this is a way to support the troops in Iraq

And linking the bill to the war in Iraq, Frist said that Beretta, the manufacturer of pistols to U.S. forces in Iraq, warned that it may go bankrupt if the lawsuits are not stopped.

"These frivolous suits threaten a domestic industry that is critical to our national defense," Frist said. "Given the profusion of litigation, the Department of Defense faces the very real prospect of outsourcing sidearms for our soldiers to foreign manufacturers."

Beretta, as the name suggests, is an old Italian family firm. Frist should know about rich families no ? I'd say quite a few transplanted hearts skipped a beat as their current bearers learned that they had been transplanted by a total idiot.

Beretta has only been making guns in Italy since 1562 so I guess Frist hasn't gotten the word.

Or maybe it's all a trick. Hunter is already disabled by laughter and unable to point out the Italianess of Beretta. I will see if humor deprived commenters have managed to resist and respond to Frists total idiocy strategy.