While Bill Frist’s video appearance on yesterday’s “Justice Sunday” telecast is earning him rebukes aplenty, he does have one solid friend in Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who writes a plaintiff op-ed for The Courier-Journal, wondering why Democrats are allowed to have a monopoly on religious language and are seen to be “reaching out” when they invoke God, while Republicans are shouted down as being “divisive.” Really? Dems? Huh? Sounds unlikely to us, but McConnell does a thorough job listing Democratic campaign appearances at churches over the last ten years. Whether or not such church stumping is equivalent to telling the parishioners that the other side is attacking all believers and the rules of governing need to be changed in order to prevent anyone from standing in the way of these, God’s messengers, is another question. But lest McConnell’s affected concern for the separation of church and state mislead you about where he really stands, absord the essay’s companion illustration: yet another Iwo Jima spin-off, this time trading the hoisted flag for a hoisted cross, and the bloody battlefield background for a snapping American flag. As though the filibuster debate needed to be compared to yet another type of warfare.