[Hat-Trick]

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (search), R-Tenn., said there was "great interest" among Republicans for a simpler approach that would add only one line to the U.S. Constitution: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman."

What an incredible leadership void we see personified in Frist. The language should have been nailed down, solid, with everybody onboard or not, months ago.

[plain talk]

Exactly. With email, ipagers etc in business we can get 50 people to review and agree on wordings for contracts or documents in less than a week.