Bush Wants Frist As Possible Successor For Wolfowitz

[EV_Ares]

Wolfowitz Successor List Emerges
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Frist Is Among Favorites
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For Bush Nomination
To World Bank President
By GREG HITT
May 24, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The White House is starting to draw up a list of potential nominees to lead the World Bank, and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a heart surgeon who has traveled widely in Africa, is getting especially close scrutiny for the job.

Also receiving long looks are Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Robert Zoellick, the former U.S. trade representative now working at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., according to individuals familiar with White House deliberations.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto declined to comment on specific candidates, but did say President Bush hopes to have names to consider soon. "The president intends to name an American to the post," Mr. Fratto said.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117995039149812427.html?mod=home_whats_news_us

[NV Whino]

1. One word

SHIT!

[physioex]

5. Yep....

He sure can line up the crooks and con artists pretty quick.......

[Bitwit1234]

2. Remember this guy is the one who was under investigation

for Insider Trading, and only got let off the hook because he was who he was...why wouldn't bush pick someone like him.

[Botany]

8. He also had day traders working out of his office in the Senate

Gonna fund a plane ... call the trader and buy that company long.

Gonna cancel funds on a dam project ... call the trader and sell short on concrete pumps.

[L. Coyote]

19. 30 U.S. attorneys investigate BILKING BILLIONS, Medicare, Medicaid, Military’s Healthcare

30 U.S. attorneys investigate BILKING BILLIONS, Medicare, Medicaid, Military’s Healthcare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x877011

Topics:
How is it that $$ BILLIONS $$ of fraud does not put CEOs in jail?
How is it that $$ BILLIONS $$ of fraud cases seem to evaporate or settle for so little?
How were those $$ BILLIONS $$ in lobbying by single industries spent? Where do those bucks STOP?

Focus: The BIG PICTURE.

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HCA's "fraud investigation involved 30 U.S. attorneys' offices, 22 FBI field offices, inspectors general from the Health and Human Service Department and the Office of Personnel Management, Defense Department investigators and state fraud units"

SOURCE: John Byrne, "Company run by Frist's brother made $630m deal two days before he announced he would be leader"
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Family_company_of_Senate_leader_made_0929.html

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[AuntPatsy]

3. With his track record it makes perfect sense, geez.

[smokey nj]

4. Cats of the world, BEWARE!

:scared:

[Octafish]

7. He only PRACTICED on cats. It's people who've got a problem.

The KKK World Bank, a Subsidiary of the BFEE.

[bdamomma]

6. why does America have to name the next World Bank executive

with our record it should go to someone else who is not from the US

[EV_Ares]

9. That was part of the agreement in getting rid of the wolfman

that the US would name the next president but maybe Bush will blow it if they try to get Fritz in there.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Thay have cats at the World Bank ????

[spindrifter]

11. That is a totally outrageous nuclear option!

The WB blog hasn't picked that rumor up. They do list Carly Fiorina as a possibility, though, along with a Harvard B school classmate of the Chimp's. See www.worldbankpresident.org

[dave_p]

12. What about DeLay?

I understand he has some experience in international financial matters.

Shame Abramoff's otherwise engaged, he could really bring the GOP way of doing business to the post.

[muntrv]

13. I didn't know that killing cats is part of the job as head of world bank.

[BurtWorm]

14. Losers.

Why not just put Tom DeLay or Jack Abramoff in there and really piss everyone off? :eyes:

[Blackhatjack]

15. Frist in charge of the World Bank will result in yet another scandal...n/t

[lpbk2713]

16. As with all other BushCo appointments ....

it's not for any special qualifications or talents. It is simply payback for being a trusted co-conspirator in the BushCo Regime.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Frist has a medical background. How is that equivalent to the demands of

accounting, financial planning, and the various world economies?

Once again, cronyism at the expense of expertise.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. Gomer sez Hey.

They never run out of crooks and liars.