Excellent!
Posted on 12/23/2002 11:48:33 AM PST by E.G.C.
Just now reported by Fox News.
Excellent!
Per FOX News, it's official!:
GOP Senators Choose Bill Frist as New Majority Leader !
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Senate GOP Chooses Frist As New Leader
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans elected Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist as their new leader Monday, a Republican source told The Associated Press. The move ended a two-week political firestorm that brought down former leader Trent Lott and threatened to derail the GOP's efforts to reach out to minorities.
The 50-year-old Frist, a wealthy heart surgeon, will become Senate majority leader when the GOP takes control of the chamber in January.
He was elected during an unprecedented conference call among most of the 51-member Senate Republican Caucus, said the Republican source familiar with the call, who spoke only on conditions of anonymity.
Frist, who participated in the call from his Nashville, Tenn., office, is considered an authority on health issues in the Senate. He still keeps his starched white lab coat in the trunk of his car, makes monthly visits to hospitals and clinics and goes on occasional overseas medical missions. When the anthrax scare surfaced on Capitol Hill last year, he worked to calm his colleagues.
The election originally was scheduled for Jan. 6 - when all senators return to Washington for the beginning of the new congressional session - but several Republican senators wanted to try and put Lott's controversy behind them before returning to the Capitol to work.
Lott lost the confidence of the Senate GOP after remarks earlier this month at a birthday party for Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., praising the retiring senator's 1948 pro-segregation presidential campaign.
The GOP now is counting on Frist to project the image of a party open to minorities as they prepare to take control of the Senate and confront a host of difficult issues. And with senators still scattered around the country for the holidays, a telephone conference was the only way to get enough lawmakers in one spot to quickly put Frist in place.
Yep. And I have to think (hope) that THIS will give Her Heinous fits if she decides to run for Prez....
Hillary's own racial/ethnic slur !.....
| BOOK CHARGES: HILLARY CALLED AIDE JEW BA**ARD |
| DRUDGE REPORT FRIDAY JULY 14, 2000 12:00:00 ET **World Exclusive** **Contains Graphic Description** Hillary Clinton has angered Jewish voters in New York and nationally with her controversial support of a Palestinian State, and her startling embrace of Yasser Arafat s wife. Questions remain, and the debate intensifies, as to whether she can win the crucial Jewish vote in New York as she wages a neck-and-neck battle with Congressman Rick Lazio, who has made the Jewish question a campaign issue. Now, as the race comes down to the wire, a new book is set to explore the first lady s feelings about Jews and anti-Semitic sentiments held by certain Rodham family members. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060193921/drudgereport>Biographer Jerry Oppenheimer s new book STATE OF A UNION: INSIDE THE COMPLEX MARRIAGE OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON will not be released by HARPERCOLLINS until Tuesday, but the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal: In one particularly shocking passage in the book, Oppenheimer quotes a campaign official who describes an angry attack by Hillary in which she screams at him, "You fu**ing Jew ba**ard!" |
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My apologies for the language, even though I did ** it out. I had to show the blatant hypocrisy, in light of the recent Trent Lott debacle. |
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| Strongly Opposes Abortion is a woman's right (0 points on Social scale) |
Opposes: YES on disallowing overseas military abortions Strongly Opposes: YES on banning partial birth abortions Opposes: YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions |
| Strongly Opposes Require companies to hire more women & minorities (10 points on Economic scale) |
Strongly Opposes: YES on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds Strongly Opposes: YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage Strongly Opposes: NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation Strongly Opposes: YES on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business Opposes: YES on prohibiting same-sex basic training Opposes: NO on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women |
| Strongly Opposes Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws (0 points on Social scale) |
Strongly Opposes: NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation Opposes: NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation |
| Favors Teach moral standards In Public Schools (2 points on Social scale) |
Favors: Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. Strongly Favors: YES on $75M for abstinence education Neutral: YES on restricting violent videos to minors |
| Opposes More Federal Funding for Health Coverage (7 points on Economic scale) |
Opposes: NO on medical savings acounts Opposes: YES on Medicare means-testing Opposes: YES on limiting self-employment health deduction Opposes: NO on increasing funds for Medicare prescriptions Opposes: NO on including prescription drugs under Medicare Opposes: YES on funding GOP version of Medicare prescription drug benefit |
| Favors Privatize Social Security (7 points on Economic scale) |
Favors: YES on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes Favors: YES on allowing Roth IRAs for retirees Favors: YES on allowing personal retirement accounts |
| Strongly Favors Parents Choose Schools via Vouchers (10 points on Social scale) |
Strongly Favors: YES on school vouchers in DC Favors: YES on education savings accounts Strongly Favors: YES on allowing more flexibility in federal school rules Favors: YES on Educational Savings Accounts Favors: NO on funding smaller classes instead of private tutors Favors: NO on funding student testing instead of private tutors |
| Favors Death Penalty (2 points on Social scale) |
Favors: YES on limiting death penalty appeals |
| Favors Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws (2 points on Social scale) |
Favors: YES on more penalties for gun & drug violations Favors: NO on $1.15 billion per year to continue the COPS program |
| Strongly Favors Absolute right to gun ownership (10 points on Social scale) |
Strongly Favors: YES on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks Favors: YES on loosening license & background checks at gun shows Strongly Favors: NO on background checks at gun shows |
| Strongly Favors Make Income Tax Flatter & Lower (10 points on Economic scale) |
Favors: YES on Internet sales tax moratorium Strongly Favors: YES on FY99 tax cuts Favors: YES on requiring super-majority for raising taxes Favors: YES on $792B tax cuts Favors: YES on eliminating the 'marriage penalty' Favors: YES on prioritizing national debt reduction below tax cuts Favors: NO on reducing marriage penalty instead of cutting top tax rates Strongly Favors: YES on cutting taxes by $1.35 trillion over 11 years Favors: NO on spending $448B of tax cut on education & debt reduction |
| No opinion Immigration helps our economy-encourage it (5 points on Economic scale) |
Strongly Opposes: YES on limit welfare for immigrants Favors: YES on visas for skilled workers Favors: YES on allowing more foreign workers into the U.S. for farm work |
| Favors Support & Expand Free Trade (7 points on Economic scale) |
Favors: YES on fast track trading authority Favors: YES on renewing 'fast track' presidential trade authority Favors: YES on expanding trade to the third world Favors: YES on removing common goods from national security export rules |
| Opposes Link Human Rights to trade with China (7 points on Social scale) |
Favors: NO on killing a bill for trade sanctions if China sells weapons Strongly Opposes: YES on permanent normal trade relations with China Opposes: YES on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam |
| Strongly Favors More Spending on Armed Forces Personnel (0 points on Economic scale) |
Favors: YES on 1996 Defense Appropriations Strongly Favors: YES on favoring 36 vetoed military projects Favors: NO on allowing another round of military base closures Strongly Favors: YES on military pay raise of 4.8% |
| Strongly Opposes Reduce spending on Missile Defense ("Star Wars") (10 points on Economic scale) |
Opposes: YES on deploying missile defense as soon as possible Opposes: YES on cutting nuclear weapons below START levels Opposes: NO on adopting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Strongly Opposes: YES on deploying National Missile Defense ASAP |
| Opposes Continue Foreign Aid to Russia, Israel, & others (7 points on Economic scale) |
Opposes: NO on limiting NATO expansion to only Poland, Hungary & Czech Favors: YES on $17.9 billion to IMF Opposes: YES on cap foreign aid at only $12.7 billion Neutral: NO on authorizing air strikes in Kosovo Neutral: YES on allowing all necessary forces and other means in Kosovo |
| Opposes Spend Resources to Stop Global Warming (7 points on Economic scale) |
Favors: YES on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests Strongly Opposes: YES on defunding renewable and solar energy Opposes: NO on keeping CAFE fuel efficiency standards Opposes: YES on preserving budget for ANWR oil drilling Opposes: YES on confirming Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior |
| Strongly Favors Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it (0 points on Social scale) |
Strongly Favors: YES on spending international development funds on drug control Favors: YES on more penalties for gun & drug violations Favors: YES on increasing penalties for drug offenses |
| Favors Allow churches to provide welfare services (2 points on Social scale) |
Favors: YES on welfare overhaul Favors: YES on allowing state welfare waivers Favors: NO on eliminating block grants for food stamps Favors: YES on welfare block grants |
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