So, what do you think of Frist now?

[SINthysist]

Hard to bash someone who stops for car wrecks...

 

[Lost Cause]

They will find a way...

His detractors will find every bend they can, and "Lott" cast him as it worked on Trent!

From today's NYTimes;

"Abortion rights advocates say that while Dr. Frist may have a different persona, "his views and his record are indistinguishable from Trent Lott's" on abortion, as Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, put it.

A spokesman for Dr. Frist said the senator was still working on the year's legislative agenda, but he noted that Dr. Frist had a long history of supporting a ban on the so-called "partial birth" procedure."

 

[SINthysist]

It would serve him right if the victims of the crash sued him for malpractice and wrongful death. Like most Senators, he has DEEP pockets and Trial Lawyers and Country Club Members as friends.

 

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It would serve him right if the victims of the crash sued him for malpractice and wrongful death. Like most Senators, he has DEEP pockets and Trial Lawyers and Country Club Members as friends.

lol....you're not trying to make me like him with this statement, are you?


edited for typo

 

[shivagoddess]

wat is all this about
im just a nieve aussie hehe

 

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Funny thing about that partial birth abortion procedure....it's rarely done and typically because the mother is at risk or the fetus unviable.

 

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It would serve him right if the victims of the crash sued him for malpractice and wrongful death. Like most Senators, he has DEEP pockets and Trial Lawyers and Country Club Members as friends.

btw....he should be protected under the Good Samaritan Law.

 

[Ishmael]

Funny thing about that partial birth abortion procedure....it's rarely done and typically because the mother is at risk or the fetus unviable.

Then there should be no big issue making it illegal unless the mother's life is endanger. And if the fetus is unviable, then it really isn't an abortion, it's just another procedure.

Ishmael

 

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Then there should be no big issue making it illegal unless the mother's life is endanger. And if the fetus is unviable, then it really isn't an abortion, it's just another procedure.

Ishmael

Isn't that for the physician to ascertain?

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

From the Washington Times:

Though Mr. Frist has given up his private practice since being elected to the Senate in 1994, he continues to work as a medical missionary in Africa during congressional vacations.
In the Senate, Mr. Frist has used his skills several times to help those in medical emergencies.

Likable guy who really cares. Smart too.

Mr. Frist graduated from Princeton University in 1974 and from Harvard Medical School in 1978.

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

From Suzanne Fields

He's getting praise from lots of places:

Dr. Frist's first speech in his new role was refreshingly unslick. He came off as an authentic original in Washington politics because his rhetoric doesn't echo focus groups or polls. For a man noted for his intellectual arrogance, he expressed a humility before the tasks ahead of him.
He extended the analogy of healing to the nation, talking about the need for all of us, black and white, to heal the "wounds of division" reopened during the past few weeks. The word "reopened" is exact because these wounds had been sewn up and were, in fact, "healing."

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

William Rusher writes:

This is actually kind of amusing:

the famous law of unitended consequences took over and handed the Democrats the most disagreeable outcome to the affaire Lott. In the first place, the swift and virtually unanimous repudiation of Mr. Lott's remarks by the president, his fellow Republican senators, and most of the major spokesmen of the conservative movement.....But, far worse, the unanimous selection of Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee as the next majority leader has brought onto the national scene a new political star of the first magnitude. It is too early to say how Mr. Frist will peform in his new job, but the early assessment of the man are enough to freeze the blood of the Democratic politicians with their eyes on 2008.

As the Senates only Doctor, and an active one at that (Africa), he is the walking embodiment of compassionate conservatism.

 

[Lost Cause]

Sniff, Sniff........

I smell Presidential grooming going on. Anybody else get a twitch?

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

It's a long way to 2008 and there's a lot of work to do between now and then. It will be an interesting period of time.

I'm looking forward to how Frist will frame the agenda starting next week. I think he sees the "big" picture where Mr. Lott really wasn't very strong with the "big" picture.

 

[RawHumor]

I'm still hoping that JC Watts is the Republican nominee in 2008.

 

[REDWAVE]

Oxymoron

"Compassionate conservative" is a contradiction in terms. Bush ran as a "compassionate conservative." Once in power, he revealed his true colors as a fascist.

Frist is a despicable scumbag, every bit as bad if not worse than Trent Lott. His wealth comes mainly from HCA, a business founded by his father and brother which has been guilty of massive Medicare fraud. He claims his millions of dollars of ownership in it are in a "blind trust," but if he knows the specific company he owns stock in, it's not really blind, is it? He played a major role in killing the Patients Bill of Rights-- an issue on which he has a major conflict of interest because of his stock in HCAThere are serious allegations against him of intimidation of black voters in the 2002 elections, and he knows how to use racist code phrases to get himself elected in the South. Last but not least, as a medical student, Frist obtained stray kittens on false pretenses in order to use (i.e., kill) them in medical experiments. Utterly vile!

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

Re: Oxymoron

"Compassionate conservative" is a contradiction in terms. Bush ran as a "compassionate conservative." Once in power, he revealed his true colors as a fascist.

Frist is a despicable scumbag, every bit as bad if not worse than Trent Lott. His wealth comes mainly from HCA, a business founded by his father and brother which has been guilty of massive Medicare fraud. He claims his millions of dollars of ownership in it are in a "blind trust," but if he knows the specific company he owns stock in, it's not really blind, is it? He played a major role in killing the Patients Bill of Rights-- an issue on which he has a major conflict of interest because of his stock in HCAThere are serious allegations against him of intimidation of black voters in the 2002 elections, and he knows how to use racist code phrases to get himself elected in the South. Last but not least, as a medical student, Frist obtained stray kittens on false pretenses in order to use (i.e., kill) them in medical experiments. Utterly vile!

And he once forgot to feed the fishes in his aquarium! It's out and out abuse of power!

 

[RawHumor]

I heard that, as a child, W was saying the "step on a crack, break your mother's back" poem while walking along the sidewalk on his way to school. That little bastard actually stepped on as many cracks as he could!

Does his evil know no limits?

 

[REDWAVE]

Yuck, yuck-- YUCK!

Yuck it up all you want, guys, but massive Medicare fraud, corruption and conflict of interest, and racist intimidation of black voters are no laughing matters. This GOP leader you're trying to present as some paragon of virtue is really a whited sepulchers, filled with all manner of filth and abominations . . .

 

[RawHumor]

Plus he eats meat, so that makes him an animal-hater too.

We need to be sure not to omit any of his evils.

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

Re: Yuck, yuck-- YUCK!

Yuck it up all you want, guys, but massive Medicare fraud, corruption and conflict of interest, and racist intimidation of black voters are no laughing matters. This GOP leader you're trying to present as some paragon of virtue is really a whited sepulchers, filled with all manner of filth and abominations . . .

I don't believe that he's a racist or a cheat. Give me evidence that will change my mind. Until I see evidence, I'm going to suport him wholeheartedly.

 

[Ishmael]

Re: Yuck, yuck-- YUCK!

Yuck it up all you want, guys, but massive Medicare fraud, corruption and conflict of interest, and racist intimidation of black voters are no laughing matters. This GOP leader you're trying to present as some paragon of virtue is really a whited sepulchers, filled with all manner of filth and abominations . . .

It's when you attempt to perpetuate this tripe that you loose all credibility. That statement is an unsupportable lie.

Everyone of the "alleged" intimidations took place in Democratically controled counties. Everyone of them. The Commissioners of Elections were democrats, and so were the poll workers. And in the end, none of the allegations were substantiated. Oh, sorry. That too was a conspiracy. Damn, I hate it when that happens.

Ishmael

 

[Texan]

Re: Yuck, yuck-- YUCK!

Yuck it up all you want, guys, but massive Medicare fraud, corruption and conflict of interest, and racist intimidation of black voters are no laughing matters. This GOP leader you're trying to present as some paragon of virtue is really a whited sepulchers, filled with all manner of filth and abominations . . .

hahahahahaha.... REDWAVE, thanks for the laugh this moring.

You're a funny little cartoon of a communist. I can picture you wearing your little chineese peasant uniform and your round wire-rimmed glasses while you lean over your keyboard typing away.

Do you have your little book of Mao's writings beside there on the table beside you?

too funny.

 

[Gil_Favor]

Re: Re: Yuck, yuck-- YUCK!

I don't believe that he's a racist or a cheat. Give me evidence that will change my mind. Until I see evidence, I'm going to suport him wholeheartedly.

Redwave will never give facts, he just spews his hatred for all to see, the boy is a total fraud, career victim, and whiner.

 

[Gil_Favor]

Hard to bash someone who stops for car wrecks...

Ted Kennedy should take lessons.