Meet Bill Frist: Senator championed confirmation of pro-abortion Satcher

WorldNetDaily ^ | 12-19-02 | Joseph Farrah

[Salvation]

Meet Bill Frist –
heir to Lott throne
Senator championed confirmation
of pro-abortion Satcher, fights fat

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Posted: December 19, 2002
9:30 p.m. Eastern

By Joseph Farah
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – Everyone knows Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is the upper house's only physician. But who is this man who appears likely to become the next Senate majority leader?

Opponents of abortion on demand are likely to be deeply disappointed. While Trent Lott, R-Miss., had promised to bring to the floor for a quick, early vote a bill restricting partial-birth abortion, Frist championed the nomination by President Clinton of former Surgeon General David Satcher, a fervent supporter of unrestricted abortion and someone who actually performed abortions.

Satcher continued to serve in the Bush administration until earlier this year.

While Satcher's nomination was widely presumed to have originated with Vice President Al Gore, like Satcher, a Tennessean, his confirmation was actually championed by Frist.

Frist once told National Public Radio that there are no absolute right, absolute wrong answers in medicine. During last year's stem-cell debate, Frist proposed using leftover embryos from in vitro fertilization clinics for scientific research. The Weekly Standard also noted that Frist believes there is a moral imperative to use one unsalvageable life to save another.

Frist's other pet causes while serving in the Senate have been fighting AIDS in Africa and fighting obesity among Americans. He believes the federal government needs to increase funding of physical education programs in school. He thinks spending $125 million on a Centers for Disease Control program encouraging children to engage in athletics is another top priority.

He sponsored a bill earlier this year that would have authorized a nationwide ad campaign to promote better nutrition and exercise and would have authorized money for bicycle paths, parks and recreation centers.

According to sources close to the White House, Frist has been favored by Bush political adviser Karl Rove to take the helm of the Senate Republicans ever since Lott got himself embroiled in controversy with his remarks at Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party.

Now Frist reportedly is considering a bid to oust Lott.

According to the Associated Press, GOP aides say Frist, now in his second term, is gauging support from his colleagues, having spent time sounding them out by telephone.

Sen. Bill Frist

One aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Frist would consider running for the job if colleagues asked him to do so "for the sake of the Senate as an institution or the long-term agenda of the Republican Party.''

In a sign that Frist might be building momentum, a Republican aide close to No. 2 Senate Republican Don Nickles of Oklahoma said Nickles would likely support a race by Frist.

Nickles, a longtime rival of Lott, believes he would have less support from colleagues than Frist for majority leader, the aide said.

Meanwhile, Lott sustained a double-barreled setback this week as Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., broke ranks to call for a change in party leadership and Secretary of State Colin Powell forcefully criticized his controversial remarks on race.

"I believe it's time to make a change," Chafee told reporters in his home state. "I think the process is happening," he said, encouraging the White House to step in to help ease Lott from power.

Powell, the highest-ranking African American in the Bush administration, made his first comments on a controversy that flared this month when Lott spoke favorably of Sen. Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign of a half-century ago.

"If the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either," Lott said at Thurmond's 100th birthday.

"I was disappointed in the senator's statement," Powell said. "I deplored the sentiments behind the statement."

"There was nothing about the 1948 election or the Dixiecrat agenda that should have been acceptable in any way to any American at that time or any American now."

Lott has maintained a defiant pose, insisting he would fight for his job at a Jan. 6 meeting of GOP rank and file senators and swiping at suggestions from anonymous officials with ties to the White House that he step down.

"There seems to be some things that are seeping out that have not been helpful," he said in Biloxi, Miss. "I understand how that happens because you've got a lot of people who work there that have different points of view," he told reporters.

"But I believe they do support what I am trying to do here and the president will continue to do so."

As WorldNetDaily reported earlier, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe Lott should be replaced as Republican leader, according to the results of a new survey.

Sixty-two percent say GOP senators should replace Lott when they meet Jan. 6, compared to just 18 percent who think he should remain the party's senate chief.

First winning entry to the Senate in 1994, Frist was re-elected in 2000 by the largest margin ever received by a candidate for statewide election in Tennessee history. He's the first practicing physician elected to the chamber since 1928.

A native of Nashville, Frist founded and subsequently directed the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, which became an internationally renowned center of multi-organ transplantation. He's performed some 200 heart and lung transplants and has written more than 100 articles, chapters and abstracts on medical research, as well as three books.

Related stories:

Poll: Most want Lott replaced

Lott's daughter hits back at segregationist

[TLBSHOW]

desperate aren't you?

[ApesForEvolution]

"Ask knowledgable conservatives in WV, IA, NC, MT, SD and TN and several other states what they think...they might not give such a glowing appraisal of Senator Frist."

Frist wasn't my top choice, not even close, but he'll do better than Lott.

[TLBSHOW]

I think its time to freep this baby killer isn't it Howlin?

[Salvation]

**Did you see how Trent caved on conservative idealogies on BET Monday Night?**

This was definitely disheartening.

[deport]

Senate	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	2001	2000	YOS	Life
Bill Frist (R)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	100	92	7	88

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The votes from which the rating was scored.... so now you know and they are available for each year

Senate Vote Descriptions (2001)

1. Ashcroft Nomination (Roll Call Vote No. 8 )
   2001-02-01
   Confirmation of President Bush's nomination of John Ashcroft of Missouri to be attorney general. ACU supported this nomination, and considers it a critical test of whether conservatives could be confirmed for executive nominations by the Senate and, ther
   ACU supported this bill.

   This bill was: supported
   The vote was: 58-45
   
   

• Individual Retirement Accounts S. 420 (Roll Call Vote No. 21 )
  2001-03-13
  Sessions (R-AL) motion to protect individual retirement accounts from limitations imposed during bankruptcy proceedings.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 61-37
  
  

• Bankruptcy Overhaul S. 420 (Roll Call Vote No. 33 )
  2001-03-15
  Wellstone (D-MN) amendment that would break private contractual arrangements by allowing the average of a debtor's last two months of income to be used to determine the ability to pay a threshold amount of debt.
  ACU opposed this bill.

  This bill was: defeated
  The vote was: 22-77
  
  

• Campaign Finance Overhaul - Union and Shareholder Consent S. 27 (Roll Call Vote No. 43 )
  2001-03-21
  McCain (R-AZ) motion to kill the Hatch (R-UT) amendment that would require unions and corporations to obtain permission from dues-paying members or shareholders before spending money on political activities. It also would require corporations or labor org
  ACU opposed this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 69-31
  
  

• Campaign Finance Overhaul - Union and Corporate Disclosure S. 27 (Roll Call Vote No. 44 )
  2001-03-21
  McCain (R-AZ) motion to kill the Hatch (R-UT) amendment that would require corporations and unions that spend money on political activities to provide detailed disclosure of funds spent on political activities to the corporation's shareholders or labor or
  ACU opposed this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 60-40
  
  

• Campaign Finance Overhaul - Non-Severability S. 27 (Roll Call Vote No. 59 )
  2001-03-29
  Dodd (D-CT) motion to kill the Frist (R-TN) amendment that would provide that if one of several specific provisions in the underlying bill, mainly the ban on soft money, disclosure requirements for issue-group advertising, and hard money limits, is found
  ACU opposed this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 57-43
  
  

• Defense Spending Increase H. Con. Res. 83 (Roll Call Vote No. 72 )
  2001-04-04
  Warner (R-VA) amendment to the Budget Act providing for an increase of $8.5 billion for national defense spending.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: passed
  The vote was: 84-16
  
  

• Bolton Nomination (Roll Call Vote No. 92 )
  2001-05-08
  Confirmation of President Bush's nomination of John Robert Bolton of Maryland to be Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: supported
  The vote was: 57-43
  
  

• Budget Resolution Cappign Spending H. Con. Res. 83 (Roll Call Vote No. 98 )
  2001-05-10
  Adoption of the final version of the Budget Resolution, calling for approximately $1.35 trillion in tax cuts through fiscal 2011, including a $100 billion stimulus package. "Discretionary" spending was capped at $661.3 billion, about equally divided betw
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: passed
  The vote was: 53-47
  
  

• Accelerated Elimination of Marriage Penalty HR 1836 (Roll Call Vote No. 113 )
  2001-05-17
  Hutchison (R-TX) amendment to the tax cut bill that would accelerate the elimination of the so-called "marriage penalty" in the standard deduction, so that it would be fully phased out in 2002.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: defeated
  The vote was: 27-73
  
  

• Capital Gains Tax Rate Reduction HR 1836 (Roll Call Vote No. 115 )
  2001-05-21
  Gregg (R-NH) motion to allow consideration of his amendment to the tax cut bill. His amendment would provide for a temporary reduction in the maximum capital gains rate from 20 percent to 15 percent, to stimulate the economy.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: defeated
  The vote was: 47-51
  
  

• Tax Cut Bill HR 1836 (Roll Call Vote No. 170 )
  2001-05-26
  Adoption of the final version of the tax cut bill, reducing taxes by $1.35 trillion through 2010 through income tax rate cuts, relief of the "marriage penalty," a phase-out of the federal estate tax, doubling the child tax credit, and providing incentives
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 58-33
  
  

• School Vouchers S. 1 (Roll Call Vote No. 179 )
  2001-06-12
  Gregg (R-NH) amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization bill that would create a demonstration program in 10 school districts to allow public school children to use federal funds in the form of vouchers to transfer to another publ
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: defeated
  The vote was: 41-58
  
  

• Boy Scouts S. 1 (Roll Call Vote No. 189 )
  2001-06-14
  Helms (R-NC) amendment to the education bill that would allow federal education funds to be withheld from public elementary and secondary schools that bar the Boy Scouts from using school facilities.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: passed
  The vote was: 53-45
  
  

• Medical Savings Accounts S. 1052 (Roll Call Vote No. 216 )
  2001-06-29
  Baucus (D-MT) motion to kill the Craig (R-ID) amendment to the Patients' Rights Bill that would express the sense of the Senate that a patients' rights bill should remove restrictions on the private sector medical savings account demonstration program. A
  ACU opposed this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 53-45
  
  

• Waiver of the Right to Sue S. 1052 (Roll Call Vote No. 218 )
  2001-06-29
  Kyl (R-AZ) amendment to the Patients' Rights Bill hat would allow health plan issuers to provide a lower cost health plan to participants who waive their right to sue.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: defeated
  The vote was: 42-54
  
  

• Decrease Navy Appropriations S. 1077 (Roll Call Vote No. 225 )
  2001-07-10
  Inouye (D-HI) motion to kill an attempt to decrease funds appropriated for a Navy aircraft program and use the funds to increase U.S. contribution to a global trust fund to combat HIV/Aids.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 79-20
  
  

• Allow Limited Oil and Gas Development HR 2217 (Roll Call Vote No. 231 )
  2001-07-12
  Landrieu (D-LA) motion to permit oil and gas development in certain areas in the Gulf of Mexico.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 67-33
  
  

• Taxpayer Funding for Gun Turn-Ins HR 2620 (Roll Call Vote No. 267 )
  2001-08-02
  Craig (R-ID) motion to kill an amendment to the Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bill creating a $15 million program for HUD to buy guns from the public.
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 65-33
  
  

• Strikes by Public Safety Employees HR 3061 (Roll Call Vote No. 323 )
  2001-11-06
  Motion to limit debate on the Daschle (D-SD) amendment to the Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill that would provide collective bargaining rights, including the right to strike, to police, firemen, and other public safety officers employed by states, counties a
  ACU opposed this bill.

  This bill was: defeated
  The vote was: 56-44
  
  

• Needle Exchange Programs HR 2994 (Roll Call Vote No. 328 )
  2001-11-07
  Landrieu (D-LA) motion to allow the use of taxpayer funds for needle exchange programs in the District of Columbia.
  ACU opposed this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 53-47
  
  

• Emergency Terrorism Spending HR 3338 (Roll Call Vote No. 328 )
  2001-12-07
  Gramm (R-TX) raised a point of order against a Byrd (D-WV) amendment that would have increased emergency terrorist response money by $15 billion more than the president wanted and the House had passed. ACU supported the Gramm position, which prevailed by
  ACU supported this bill.

  This bill was: adopted
  The vote was: 50-50
  
  

• International Criminal Court HR 3338 (Roll Call Vote No. 358 )
  2001-12-07
  Dodd (D-CT) amendment that would move the United States towards participation in the International Criminal Court for the prosecution of crimes against humanity.
  ACU opposed this bill.

  This bill was: defeated
  

[Torie]

Well I am not sure an admission of being a part of a prior immoral leadership iron triangle equals an admission of being a racist. Frankly, what bothers me the most is 1) what comes out of Lott's mouth is inept and disingenuous, and 2) Lott's resume. His resume stinks, and does so in a rather sui generis way among sitting members of the Senate. And that is how I see it.

[sinkspur]

Do some fact checking on who do 99% of the abortions

It's not Surgeons

But if, as part of that 1%, he did five or ten, well, hell, that's only five or ten, right?

Sponsoring someone who has killed children in the womb is piddly, compared to pissing off the race pimps with some remarks at an old man's birthday party, right?

I'm getting the waft of the fragrance Eau de Hypocrite.

Let's not canonize Bill Frist. He's got an eyebrow-raising background himself.

[TLBSHOW]

He will never get in!

[Howlin]

I think its time to freep this baby killer isn't it Howlin?

So now you're FOR affirmative action AND for calling people baby killers?

Keep this up. You alone could make people want Lott gone.

[John Valentine]

Well, I'm not energized over the "pro-life" issue. In fact, I don't beleive that abortion is a proper area for Federal interest or involvement. It is properly a matter for the States.

I am VERY suspicious of anything that would give more intrusive power to the feds, and I quite frankly can't make out a case for ANYTHING that could be more intrusive, more offensive, and more objectionable than federal reproductive police.

I don't reaally understand why these "pro-lifers" are infesting the Republican Party at all, since it seems to me that they would be far more politically in tune with the do-gooders and social experimenters over at the Socialist International.

[Jhoffa_]

No it isn't..

You're turning this into what's the meaning of "is"

His part of the country..

A part of that..

Like I said, go ahead and look for excuses.. but you guy's were tarring and feathering him long before the BET interview.

(I actually hate Trent Lott, I can't believe I wound up defending him on this.. )

[Salvation]

**he is pretty squishy, and hasn't proven friendly at all to the conservative base of the party from anything I have seen.**

Squishy......Does ring too well in my ears, and definitely would not be a conservative choice.

[wardaddy]

Fine...but I would like very much to know how Frist or Bush or anyone is going to stop the socialist stranglehold on our print and television media?

Nationalization?...count me in!

[EternalVigilance]

JMO of course.

And of course you are entitled to it.

Here's mine:

Conservatives make up a large majority of the base of the GOP, but are woefully underrepresented in its leadership, both within the Party and in elected office in Washington.

This choice exacerbates that problem, whereas the choice of Nickles would have helped ameliorate it.

Having said that, I am not blind to the progress we have made, especially in mainstreaming our ideas and principles. IOW, we are losing lots of battles, but winning the ideological war, slowly but surely.

Regards

[APBaer]

"I don't reaally understand why these "pro-lifers" are infesting the Republican Party at all"

Because the Stasi has been disbanded.

[ApesForEvolution]

Just the site of Danforth, after his Waco white-washing, makes me ill. He is a slimeball.

[Howlin]

Well I am not sure an admission of being a part of a prior immoral leadership iron triangle equals an admission of being a racist.

Well, then, there was no need for this, was there?

LOTT: Yes, I can't deny that. And I--you know, that--I believe that I have changed and that I'm trying to do a better job. But yes, I'm a part of the region and the history that has not always done what it was supposed to have done.

What do you think he was talking about, pulling for Alabama instead of Ole Miss?

[wardaddy]

ROTFLMAO....oh yeah.....ROTFLMAO...let's not attack a Pubbie leader for not being "ideological" enough.....no....all you have to do is pretend he offended your lofty sensibilities...

You guys kill me!.....It's nice to go to bed with a good laugh...

[fightinJAG]

His voting record is posted on several other large threads.

[Salvation]

So will it be McConnell then?