[johnny7]

I can't stand him.

[BulletBobCo]

Who would make a good replacement as Senate Majority Leader when Frist leaves the Senate?

[G.Mason]

"He [Frist] is sincere and increasingly effective, but colleagues hope his ear will become more acute."

Sorry boys and girls of the Congress. Our technology is not that far advanced.

[Huck]

So the complaint is that a doctor approached a medical research issue as a doctor rather than as a Washington politician?

[Coop]

I knew this was a Novak piece before even clicking on the link.

[kittymyrib]

"...seldom has a Republican majority leader defied a Republican president..." should read NEVER! Frist apparently doesn't realize that if it weren't for Pres. Bush's victories, he wouldn't BE majority leader. But Novak, who is sounding more and more like the gossip columnist he is, doesn't mention the most galling fact in this back-stabbing incident. Frist called the NYT hours before he notified the President of his bomb shell. That alone should get him demoted to the broom closet.

[IrishGOP]

Self-limited to two Senate terms, Frist leaves at the end of 2006

Good. Don't let the door hit you in the backside on your way out.

[Cboldt]

For politicians, Frist's sin is not so much what he did, but when he did it. Announcing his new stem cell position July 29 [2005] ...

It is not "new" as of July 2005 for Frist to support embryonic stem cell research. Frist hasn't changed his position. He does seem to have allowed the false impression to fester, that he was against ESCR - and he deserves to be knocked for that, but not for having a "new" or "changed" position on the issue.

Mr. FRIST. I strongly support embryonic stem cell research. As both a supporter and a scientist, I can tell you that this field remains in its earliest stages of basic research. At a hearing on stem cell research this fall, Secretary Thompson noted that clinical applications are years away. It is simply not the case that a ban on human cloning, particularly the temporary moratorium we are discussing today, would in any way harm the progress of stem cell research.

December 3, 2001 - MORATORIUM ON CLONING - Page S12301

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Mr. FRIST. At this point in the evolution of this new science, I believe there is no justification for the purposeful creation and destruction of human embryos in order to experiment with them, especially when the promise and success of stem cell research does not--does not--depend on the experimental research cloning technique. As my colleagues know, I am a strong supporter of stem cell--including embryonic stem cells-- research, as long as that stem cell research is conducted within an ethical and moral framework.

April 9, 2002 - HUMAN CLONING- Page S2385

[prairiebreeze]

His ear will not become more acute. He's a physician. Physicians do NOT like being told what to do and are generally not particularly good team players.

[Texas_Conservative2]

what BS the only thing he spent weeks looking at to decide how he felt on the stem cell issue was polls.

[mvpel]

Mike Hammond, of Gun Owners of America, tried to get him to prevent any amendments to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act by filling out the bill's amendment tree, and not only did he have to explain to Frist what that was, but then Frist lost his nerve at the last minute leaving us with the trigger lock amendment from Master Lock, Inc. Senator Kohl, and the A/P ammo amendment.

[victim soul]

But Frist's knack for doing the wrong thing at the wrong time has cast a pall over his once-bright presidential ambitions for 2008, apart from his national leadership role in the party.

His speech at The Republican National Convention was a BORING BOMB!

[steve-b]

Frist missed the counting of Electoral College votes (including the Ohio challenge) to leave on a medical mission to the Indian Ocean after the tsunami.

And properly so. Watching paint dry would be a better use of Frist's, or anyone's, time than dignifying the farcical "challenge" with his presence.