Reply #13: This costs a lot, and yeilds so little.

[Fovea]

I cannot imagine that Rove was behind it.
Frankly, the only way he could be, is if the
admin needs a covering story even at the expense of
soiling congress with this hideously divisive ploy.

I agree that it seems like Tom DeLay's game, with Frist going for the attention. He did, however, in the process give us the ultimate Anti Frist commercial--


<SPOT -- Billy makes a diagnosis>


<Picture of editing board with the Shiavo tape on it.>

VO- Billy Frist felt able to make a life or death
diagnosis of Terri Shiavo based on an edited videotape, never having seen the patient.

<Picture of an unemployed worker with a sign>

It this how he plans to diagnose the economy?

<Jump to Picture of Iraqi IED going off>

Iraq?

<Jump cut-- picture of American soldier with prosthesis.>

The disabled?
<Jump cut Split Screen-- picture of ivy league graduation/young men in prison>

The two Americas...

Billy Frist has a diagnosis for your problems. You make and keep too much money that his friends have plans for.

<END SPOT>