Frist May Get New Powers

[PaDUer]

Looks like these pukes are desperate, sigging Frist on them! Sounds like things are NOT sweet with the repukes!

http://www.rollcall.com/pub/49_145/news/6085-1.html

Frist May Get New Powers
By Mark Preston
Roll Call Staff
June 28, 2004

Senate Republican leaders are considering granting Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.) more power over committee assignments, a tool which would allow him to reward loyal Senators and punish wayward Republicans who fail to toe the party line.

[arcos]

1. bring it on...

it would just cause more Jeffords, especially if the Democrats win back the Senate.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Like x-ray vision? Or the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound

[Cyrano]

4. Exactly. Wonder if they're going to give him a cape?

[smirkymonkey]

36. No, just some pantyhose and

a wonderbra. :evilgrin:

[MallRat]

14. Sorry 'bout that. You beat me to the punch line.

:-)

[hatrack]

23. Razor-edged talons which can dissect a cat with just one swipe!

Granted, it's not as exciting as flight or invisibility, but it's certainly appropriate.

[trof]

25. The ability to Cloud Men's Minds.

The Shadow knows...

[hatrack]

27. Or in Frists's case, the Shallow knows . . .

BWAHAHHAHHAHHAHHAH!!!!!!!!!!

[trof]

33. Very GOOD, hat.

[bryant69]

3. Interesting

Of course it goes without saying that if Kerry wins the presidency than the Senate and House will need a lot of discipline to keep Kerry from doing anything. I guess this is how they are going to get it.

Of course, looked at another way, if President Bush gets a second term his schemes may be so crazy that some republicans will break with him; this could be a way to keep them in line.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[MallRat]

15. It won't mean diddly-poo if the Democrats take the Senate back!

n/t

[bryant69]

17. Good point

And may turn to their disadvantage, as the powers would be a tool in the new Majority Leaders hands.

[PaDUer]

29. I just hope they're not

setting things up like this because they KNOW what they're going to do to remain in power. Sounds like the R's are having one hell of a time with their own. Wonder how many are jumping to the other side.

[DenverDem]

5. Telekinetic ability to operate on falsely obtained shelter cats.

Frist is a prevaricating, animal abusing, medicare defrauding POS.

[Cats Against Frist]

6. Leave it to the GOP

to give one of the slimiest corpo-fascists amongst them even MORE power. They're grooming him for '08, you know. Sick kids in Africa my ass.

If you can't tell by my nic, Frist is the unholiest of unholies, in my opinion -- but really he's tied with Cheney, DeLay and Richard Perle....:)

[Kazak]

9. Pfft...

He couldn't win against a ficus tree..."bring it on"!!

Edit: spelling

[Cats Against Frist]

20. I see it as kind of like the Omen IV

Where the husband is rising to political power, and he's supposed to be the anti-christ or something. He and Frist have melded into the same person, in my visual of the movie.

[tnlefty]

18. Hi CAF...I see you have the same affection for one of my senators as I

have...:hi:

[Burma Jones]

7. Fine, we'll take a couple more Senators

Join Us, it's blisssssss

[CatWoman]

8. The power of Christ compels you.

The power of Christ compels you.
The power of Christ compels you.
The power of Christ compels you.

[nostamj]

10. the measure for how LOW and disgusting Frist is...

bushco INSTALLED him as majority leader.

nuff said?

[Ivan Zero]

11. Discipline problems?

Sounds to me like their legendary party discipline is starting to come unglued, and Frist needs a bigger carrot and stick.

[shraby]

13. Maybe Frist is more

connected to Bush-Cheney than we know.

[shoelace414]

22. Republicans have no carrot

they are all stick

[MallRat]

12. New Powers? You mean, like X-Ray vision?

:argh:

[yellowcanine]

16. That ought to promote harmony in the GOP Big Tent. Seems the Dems might

be able to persuade a few Pub senators to pull a "Jeffords" if this plan is implemented. I am thinking Chaffee, Snowe, and Hagel. They can keep that weasel Lindsay Graham.

[tom_paine]

19. The Drive towards a Totally Broken Imperial Party, Imperial Congress

continues apace.

They must even break the independant patriots who are part of their own party.

Just like the Nazis got rid of Roehm and the SA, only, as usual, more kinder and gentler than the originals.

[underpants]

21. Since when has Frist had ANY powers? Delay is running the show

on the Hill everyone knows that.

[moondust]

41. IIRC this is how Delay runs the House.

Sweeping powers to punish disloyalty. Tyranny works on obedient fools!

[bigtree]

24. Sounds more and more like the Third Reich Party

Strength Through Discipline

[asjr]

26. He already thinks he is God. He is

a disgrace and I am sick that he is one of my senators. He is a pasty-faced, neurotic, deceiving and poorest excuse for a human being. I suppose that is what Shrub likes about him. Oh, how I miss Trent Lott!

[gulfcoastliberal]

28. Chimperor like Frist

cause his family owns HCA corp. They bilked medicare for probably hundredsof millions with KPMG assistance. Another typical corporate crime family associate of the reigning criminal of that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

[PaDUer]

31. They should be charged

with Medicare FRAUD!

[3trievers]

30. WHAT A GREAT COUNTRY

Only in America could a guy like GWB be elected president and a man who voted for the first time when he ran for the senate be elected majority leader.Awesome!!!

[newyawker99]

38. Hi 3trievers!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Cat Atomic]

32. Bitten by a radioactive snake, Bill Frist has all the powers of a viper!

.

[MikeG]

34. He now shits perfectly cube-shaped turds that can be stacked neatly

How's that for powers, huh?

[Cheswick2.0]

35. Will he have a big F on his chest?

or perhaps a KK for Kitty Killer?

[TNDemo]

37. Have you noticed his scheduling of the same sex marriage vote?

This was a letter to the editor of our paper this weekend (I actually know the guy who wrote it). I haven't read this whole thread so I don't know if it has been discussed but thought this was pretty shifty. Here's the letter:



Sen. Frist plays politics with Senate calendar

To the Editor:

Sen. Bill Frist must quit playing clumsy politics with the Senate calendar. He has scheduled Senate consideration of the same sex marriage discrimination amendment during the Democratic National Convention. I wonder why? (''Kerry says GOP barred him from vote,'' June 24)

And just June 22, our senator delayed a vote concerning veterans benefits to create petty inconvenience to John Kerry. Frist mused that Kerry should resign as senator in light of the latter's presidential campaign commitments.

How about this: Kerry can resign once perpetual fund-raiser George W. Bush steps down. It sounds fair to me, but fairness has nothing to do with what Frist is after.

Howard Baker is surely ashamed of this dearth of statesmanship. Our country deserves so much more.

[Cats Against Frist]

39. What a goddamn slime bucket...eom

[Tight_rope]

40. WTF!

:wtf: "reward loyal Senators and punish wayward Republicans who fail to toe the party line". Oh so if a person can't be totally be brainwashed to the Republican way, then they will horse whip him. Damn...with friends like Frist who needs enemies!:kick: