Is Frist Up to Task Of Being President?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/26/AR2005062601032.html

Is Frist Up to Task Of Being President?
Handling of Tough Issues Questioned

By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 27, 2005; Page A04

By noon last Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist seemed done with John R. Bolton's nomination to be U.N. ambassador. Bustling from the Capitol to have lunch with President Bush, he told reporters he planned no further votes to try to end the Democrats' long-running filibuster of the embattled nominee.

But after his presidential chat, Frist announced he would keep trying, prompting newspaper headlines such as "Frist Reverses Himself," which his staff called unfair.


The next day, the Tennessee surgeon-turned-politician again seemed to wash his hands of Bolton. "It's really between the White House and Chris Dodd and Joe Biden," he said, naming two senior Democratic senators. At 11 p.m., however, he was working the phones, successfully urging another conversation between Biden and White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. But the late-night Biden-Card call did not resolve a dispute over documents at the heart of the Bolton impasse, and Frist had little to show for his work but negative news reports and political headaches.

"It's not easy being Senate majority leader," Robert J. Dole said in an interview Friday. The Kansas Republican knows it well. Like Frist, Dole learned the post is even harder when its occupant is running, or even thinking about running, for president. He resolved the conflict by resigning from the Senate in June 1996, though it did not save his campaign against President Bill Clinton.

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[leesa]

1. Well...he's a lunatic, is that one of the qualifications now?

[crizzo5137]

2. Frist-Flop... Bwahahahahahaha!

[snowbear]

13. OMG.... That is too funny !! "Frist-Flop" !!

:rofl:

Crank out the bumper stickers! :patriot:

[Bismillah]

3. If George Bush can be President, then Paris Hilton can be Pope.

So live the American Dream, Bill.

[DanCa]

4. A Frist - Mccain primairy battle would be very interesting.(nt)

[MadisonProgressive]

5. WHOA! He has to get elected first! Ain't gonna happen!

[Wapsie B]

6. With the chimp

the repugs have lowered the bar damn near as low as it's ever been. So if they can install him, Frist would be a shoe-in as long as the konservative fundies tow the line.

[patrice]

7. My initial impression is that he is emptier than Shrub.

Probably has a pretty sanitary background too, because he's a mental turnip?

Military service?

He seems like colorless cardboard to me.

[JohnnyBoots]

8. Except for that whole murding kittens for science projects thing.

[patrice]

12. No! Really? OMG!!!! People HATE that sort of thing. He didn't. Did he?

That's worse than blowing up frogs for fun in Texas, but not as bad as starting a war instead of just having a drink of alcohol.

[JohnnyBoots]

14. Seriously, he

would adopt cats from the SPCA in Cambridge, MA when he was at Harvard Med and preform experiments on them in the name of science. I am pretty sure it is documented in his own words I think it is in his autobiography. Sick fuck, huh? Question for me is - he got the cats alive,when and how did he do them in to preform the experiments or was that one of the tests?

[Oversea Visitor]

9. Blasting From Asia

Trainwreck Coming Frist, Trainwreck Ahead.
Save your azz.

[jfalchion]

10. Frist

eom

[jfalchion]

11. Frist = fooken idjit

eom

[zulchzulu]

15. Heck...Frist would be an ideal Repug candidate

He's knee-deep in his own bullshit...he's an obvious lightweight politically...and he's boring.

Run Frist run!

[Clark2008]

16. Fuck no.

And I say this as a Tennessean who has gotten diddly in way of representation from the cadaverous creep.

[Gothmog]

17. Flip Flop Frist

We need to use the nick name Flip Flop Frist as often as possible for Frist.