Frist removed the cancer of Sasser from this state. He was fine as a backbencher Senator, but was profoundly underqualified as a Senate leader. Dingy Harry made Frist his bitch as Majority Leader, and it showed (and we promptly lost the Senate).
Remember Frist was going to run for Governor in 2010 ? So we put out the word that he was incompetent, and that was that (alas, we got Haslam instead, probably worse). I see Frist recently went full retard in supporting that massive (and thankfully defeated) $20 billion boondoggle on Nashville transit supported by the creepy cemetery fornicating with a cop twat Mayor Barry. He’s about as out-of-touch now as they come.
The one positive thing I can say for McTurtle is he knows the Senate manual of procedure backwards and forwards and nothing gets done he doesn't want done. He absolutely stonewalled BHO’s legislative agenda after the Gopers got the Senate back. The Turtle is establishment through and through but like his predecessor Byrd he knows his words and music..