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 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.
You hit the nail on the head! I am so disappointed at Freepers at times. Shirley
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.
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."