According to an old adage, there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. But, as U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist may have learned this week, on the Internet it can be hard to tell which is which.
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Alabama's judicial ethics panel removed Chief Justice Roy Moore from office Thursday for defying a federal judge's order to move a stone Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court building.

Senator Bill Frist (R- Moron) put up a poll on his web site earlier today asking:

When Senator Reid mentioned that the poll wasn't supporting Frist's position, Frist simply changed the question- asking instead, "Should the Senate be prevented from exercising its Constitutional duty to provide the President's judicial nominees with an up or down vote," flipping the meaning of Yes and No without resetting the numbers... The "Yes" votes started rolling in.

Then for a while the question was changed to the ambiguous, "Should the Senate from exercise its Constitutional duty to provide the President's judicial nominees with an up or down vote?" When "Yes" overtook "No" the question was flipped again so "No" was the opposition. The "No" vote once again took over and the question was flipped once again.

Finally the poll was closed moments after this screen shot:


After the poll closed the question was changed again:

TexasPatriot points out that they kept counting votes after the polls closed. Could it be that Diebold is running this poll? That would explain a lot...

Link to incriminating screen caps. - Feel free to use them however you see fit. I don't have caps from early on, but these cover a couple of flip-flops and the final flop, switching the question after the fact. (Yes, I do have the google toolbar installed, and obviously I did finally find a copy of PrintKey)

Here's Atrios's post pointing out the first flip-flops...

This stuff is great!

THE COURT: Let me ask you about that: Mr. O'Reilly uses in his book "the good, the bad and the completely ridiculous." Is that not a play on "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"?

MS. HANSWIRTH: I don't know.

THE COURT: You don't know whether that's a play on "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."

MS. HANSWIRTH: I don't know.

THE COURT: Well, assume that it is. Is that not a play on a trademarked phrase?

MS. HANSWIRTH: That's a title of a movie.

THE COURT: Yes. And I assume there's some kind of protection for the title of the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."

MS. HANSWIRTH: Your Honor, there generally --

THE COURT: I think that I have in some of the papers, it might have been the amicus brief, a representation that the phrase "the good, the bad and the ugly" is a trademarked phrase.

MS. HANSWIRTH: I don't know that that's the case. And I don't know --

THE COURT: Well, I mean, isn't Mr. O'Reilly doing exactly the same thing using a trademarked phrase in the title of his book? The good, the bad --

MS. HANSWIRTH: He's not doing it to confuse. He's certainly not using it to sell the product.

A group of more than two dozen House of Representatives Democrats on Monday said they had introduced a resolution urging President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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