Frist: Feingold Censure Talk 'Dead Wrong'

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.'"

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.

This was forwarded to me by many folks. PASS IT ON!
However, I've not checked it out!!

WHY WAIT UNTIL 2008? THERE IS AN ELECTION IN 2006. I HEREWITH FIRMLY STATE THAT I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANY POLITICIAN, REGARDLESS OF THE OTHER ISSUES, IF HE DOES NOT SPONSOR AND SUPPORT THIS LEGISLATION. THAT INCLUDES EVERYONE STANDING FOR ELECTION IN 2006.

LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON "PEOPLE POWER"AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE WITH ME ON THIS BY REPLYING AND FORWARDING TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!

KEEP IT GOING!!!!

2006 Election Issue!!

GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.

This must be an issue in "2006" Please! Keep it going.

SOCIAL SECURITY:

(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)

Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.

Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.

You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society.They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan.

In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.

For all practical purposes their plan works like this:

When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.

Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments..

For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousan d Dollars), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their lives.

Tom DeLay is slated to receive $4,795,000.00, Jon Corzine will only receive $1,140,000.00 because of his short tenure in the senate.

Bob Dole is already collecting on his $6,575,000.00 since he left the Senate. His wife is now in the Senate, working to build up her own pile of gold from us. These figures are in addition to the FREE medical, dental, optical, and hospitalization services given to these so called public servants. Let us clean up their act in 2006, use your votes.

This is calculated on an average life span for each of those named Dignitaries.

Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives

Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA....ZILCH....

This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds!!!!

"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"!

From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into,-every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer)-we can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement.

Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator! Bob Dole's benefits!

Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.

T hat change would be to:

Jerk the Golden Fleece Retiremant Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us

then sit back.....

and see how fast they would fix it.

If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.

How many people CAN YOU send this to?

Better yet....

How many people WILL YOU send this to?

Just what I was thinking.

How did the political stunt equating our allies with terrorists, and shouting down the Prez in childish fashion..though to be fair the House Republicans disgraced themselves the most on that... help strengthen G.W.B.? How does having Congress rail against tapping the terrorists help his standing? How does trashing Rummy help us in this war? yeah, I mean YOU McCain. How does providing extra provisions for terrorists so not one hair is harmed help our President fight a brutal war? how does it help our troops?

I mean, great, It's nice he's FINALLY saying what he should have been saying....FOUR YEARS AGO. Would be nice if these Congresscritters backed it up with REAL support in that building they congregate in as well. The vocal defense is a bit too late. I'd rather start seeing actual support that materializes in actions we can measure. Like, I don't know, stop calling for Congressional hearings everytime the NYT's sneezes out a new national security secret. Give benefit to the President when the MSM comes looking for a quote in the middle of a new manufactured scandal.

Talk is cheap.

I defended Frist for years, up to a few months ago.

I want action that backs up his tough talk. Ditto all the Reps. Talk is no longer good enough.

Talk WOULD have been good enough four years ago...three years ago..two years ago..one year ago....three months ago. But they couldn't be bothered to say this when it would have mattered to counter the MSM propaganda. Now the ONLY thing that will get through to the American people is action that PROVES they are serious about the WOT and support this President. The rest the people are going to tune out as fluff, because everytime the Reps say one thing...they come out and do another.

Don't mistake that 'm unusually harsh toward Frist. I feel this way about virtually all of them now.

And, don't mistake I don't like what he said. I do. My feeling is along the lines of, "It's about damn time." But Frist is running for President. When it would have MATTERED, he was silent. It'll take more than words to win me over now.

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.

Wake up, Frist. Or is this just pure demagoguery? I'm not even going to touch the bold vision crap, but if Frist doesn't think our enemies are smart enough to figure out that Bush's dismal approval ratings amount to a lack of support, he is even less intelligent than I thought him.

And what is it lately with Congressional Republicans? Which pinhead told them their best strategy would be to answer the idiot babbling of the Democrats with even more idiotic babbling of their own?

It seems that with all the talk about the Senate being the home of reasoned, calm debate and not passionate diatribes common to the House of Representatives, only the Republicans hold themselves to those standards when they are the target of savage, craven rhetoric.

Of course, the MSM gives the Demo Senators shield in such instances. Let Rick Santorum say make a tortured parallel of the Democratic minority to Hitler, and it's all over the news (rightly). But when Dick Durbin likened interrogations at Gitmo to Stalin's gulags and Pol Pot's killing fields, it had to be dragged out into the open by talk radio. And Harry Reid can suggest Clarence Thomas' writing is below high school level, and no one bats an eye. Hillary likens the GOP majority to plantation owners before a black audience, and it doesn't register more than a blip.

Feingold's calling for the censure of the President called for stronger terms than "Russ is wrong, dead wrong." I would have expected something in the realm of "How dare this Senator waste time and resources on this pointless publicity-seeking crusade that he knows, first of all, is doomed to defeat, and secondly, that gives the enemies of this country the impression that we in this body are not dedicated to protecting it by every means necessary!"

Of course, Frist would have had to refer to Feingold as "my good friend."

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