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Don't get giddy..... as that's when reality will set in... Expect a few good days and a lot of bad ones and you'll not be too disappointed. Politics is a game of compromise at best.

I do think that Frist will bring a different approach for a while at least. But the Senate has it's own rules and they are deeply rooted....

He'll get some of his appointees confirmed now or at least to a floor vote. Even that will take time as they do have to go through the hearing process. It will be interesting to see how hard Hatch pushes the hearings.

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I do think that Frist will bring a different approach for a while at least. But the Senate has it's own rules and they are deeply rooted....

A man that gets himself through breakthrough studies at Harvard Medical School by "adopting" cats from animal shelters, in order to experiment on them...

...won't be pussy-footing around and he won't let that 'Tom' stand in his way.