Posted on 03/12/2006 11:42:12 AM PST by wagglebee
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist tore into his Senate colleague, Russ Feingold, on Sunday, saying the Wisconsin Democrat's plan to introduce a resolution of censure against President Bush in a time of war would give aid and comfort to America's enemies.
"Russ is just wrong. He is flat wrong. He is dead wrong," Frist fumed on ABC's "This Week," minutes after Feingold announced his censure plan on the same show.
The top Republican complained: "As I was listening to it, I was hoping deep inside that the leadership in Iran and other people who really have the U.S. not in their best interests, were not listening because of the terrible, terrible signal it sends."
Asked if he thought Feingold's censure resolution "actually weakened America abroad," Frist told "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos, "Yes.
"We are right now in a war, in an unprecedented war - where we do have people who really want to take us down . . . So the signal that is sends, that there is in any way a lack of support for our Commander-in-Chief, who is leading us with a bold vision in a way that we know is making our homeland safer, is wrong."
The Tennessee Republican warned that Feingold's resolution will prompt "leadership around the world of our sworn enemies to say, 'Well, now we have a little crack there.'"
Does this mean he is going to vote against the Censure resolution before he votes for it?
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Are you planning to use your leadership position to censure this unacceptable behavior, Senator Frist?
Time was when talk such as that in which Feingold has engaged was called "sedition" and - in time of war - punished by hanging. Little need for it, though, inasmuch as such sentiments were almost universally considered too shameful to contemplate, much less express. Times have changed, of course, and now sedition is tres chic among the PC America haters on the Left - always intent on bashing the nation which gave them birth and nurtured them. Oh, Brave New World.
Frist is by far the worst Senate leader in my life time. He is a little twit.
I'm sure he'll be willing to discuss it with the Democrats. Of course, there is the problem of Republicans siding with the Democrats to contend with, and McCain might step in to forge a Third Way...
If the GOP brings bak the sedition laws, be sure the Dems will happily abuse it given half a chance. I can't imagine a Hitlery weilding such power...(:-(]
Trent Lott begs to differ. Then there is Bob Dole, although Bob Dole thinks that Bob Dole was a fine leader.
Sasparilla in a dirty glass.
Frist has spoken up firmly several times in the past few weeks, and every single time no one here does anything but attack him. It's pathetic. He might as well support Feingold. He'd get the same response.
Frist has a working majority and a Republican White House and House.
And yet he can't even get the death tax abolished. This should be a slam dunk, a warm up to fry bigger fish
Frist is totally inept. Far exceeding Dole or Lott.
When pigs fly.
Frist has spoken up firmly several times in the past few weeks, and every single time no one here does anything but attack him. It's pathetic. He might as well support Feingold. He'd get the same response.
Because every time Frist does not follow up with action on the Senate Floor.
Bob Dole, the tax collector for the Welfare State.
Perhaps they can agree to censure Frist for thinking bad things about the Demo-RINO majority.
Sounds like an apt description of Feingold... 'a little crack'...
Definitely not presidential material.
bttt
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