LA Times Editorial: The Frist Problem

[brooklynite]

...snip...

Frist may be bringing trouble on himself by trying to satisfy the exorbitant demands of his party's far-right wing, which, like the old Soviet Union, views one concession simply as an occasion to ask for another. Before Frist truckles any further to the conservative base, he would do well to remember that the Hippocratic oath should apply to the Senate as well: First do no harm.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-frist27may27,0,5456765.story

[Fovea]

1. Should that be amended to

'Frist, do no harm?'

[Orrex]

3. Too late for that!

Funny, though.

[JuniorPlankton]

2. Frist long forgot the Hippocratic oat

The only thing moving him now is "hypocritic oath"

:puke:

[Fovea]

5. I like to think of him as the

hypocritic oaf.

[WhiteTara]

7. I don't like to think about him at all

but if I have to, why then hypocritic oaf is the best way to do it.
THanks

[Dr.Phool]

4. He's already sold his soul to the devil

For his expected presidential campaign.

[Roland99]

6. Paging Dr. Fristian...your patient has died

[rodeodance]

8. Frist IS the right wing of the party--their needs are his needs-

[teryang]

9. Totalitarianism begins as a mass movement

A kind of loosely organized "mob rule." The mob is manipulated by staged events, the creation of external and internal enemies, and the manipulation of symbols and ideology. The unwitting mob, motivated by demagogues, feels "patriotic" and that it is receiving social recognition unjustifiably witheld in the past, by internal enemies. The elites, who have the demagogues on their payrolls, are manipulating the mob and believe that they have it under control but are not confident. Ever more restrictive police measures are enacted at home and greater risks are taken abroad to control the mob and its leaders in the field should they become disloyal. Creating a series of foreign threats is the primary method to secure rule by dictatorship (which inevitably fails as rule becomes indefinitely unsecure).

The ostensibly non-governmental leadership of the mob in the field include the evangelicals, main stream media, and private corporate hierarchies.

[indepat]

10. The strongest possible argument could be made that Frist has done nothing

but harm in the Senate, that he has systematically acted in the interest of large corporations rather than the interest of by far most of his constituents. But worry not, should he decide to run again for the Senate, the good people of Tennessee will likely return him to office in a landslide. no matter how much he has harmed by far the most of them.

[deacon2]

11. Waiting for his autobiography

"The Fristing of America"

[Skittles]

12. lol.............deacon

I literally laughed out loud. :D