No Love for Frist

[ProSense]

No Love for Frist
by Mike Liddell
Wed Dec 7th, 2005 at 11:38:48 AM EST

Two signs of Majority Leader Bill Frist's failed leadership surfaced today, showing just how little he's liked within his own party.
First, the radical right wing of the GOP is attacking Frist for failing to do their bidding. The Hill reports:


Frustration is mounting among social conservatives over the Senate’s and Majority Leader Bill Frist’s (R-Tenn.) failure this year to schedule votes on legislation important to the movement.
Apparently the right-wing of the GOP is "so disenchanted that many may not vote next November."

Meanwhile, Frist can't even seem to get his own supporters to back his most cherished legislative accomplishments. A separate article in The Hill writes:


Passing the Medicare prescription drug bill is one of Sen. Bill Frist’s (R-Tenn.) most significant accomplishments as majority leader. But a lot of his supporters aren’t fond of it.
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According to Frist’s Volunteer Political Action Committee’s (VolPAC) website, 44 percent of respondents think the Medicare prescription-drug benefit will not be successful. Only 18 percent said the program would work and 38 percent said there was not enough information.

And to add a bit of insult to injury, The Hill also writes that "Frist, a heart surgeon, also could be dismayed to learn that 57 percent of people surveyed think that doctors are overpaid."

With failed leadership like that it's no wonder that Frist is giving up his Senate seat in 2006.

http://www.fromtheroots.org/story/2005/12/7/113848/385

[Lefty48197]

1. He's an even worse Senator than he is a Doctor

Remember, he's the one who diagnosed Terry Schiavo as being in a non-vegetative state by the video he watched. He's also the doctor that thinks that you can catch AIDS from somebody elses tears.

[AnnInLa]

2. He's Stupid, He's ugly and Nobody likes him

couldn't happen to a better person