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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Fredric L. Rice" |
| Date: |
17 Apr 2005 07:45:00 PM |
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Christian Gods speaks to Slick Willie Frist, ya know. |
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=255
4/17/2005
Senate GOP leader Frist under fire from colleagues
From a Newsweek release:
LINDSEY GRAHAM EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER BILL FRIST’S INVOLVEMENT IN
PRAYER SERVICE ABOUT EASING SENATE FILIBUSTER DEBATE RULE; JOHN MCCAIN
TRYING TO WORK OUT A DEAL WITH RED-STATE DEMOCRATS ABOUT THE
FILIBUSTER RULE; IN PRIVATE LETTER, 31 OF FRIST’S HARVARD MEDICAL
SCHOOL CLASSMATES ACCUSE HIM OF USING HIS MEDICAL DEGREE IMPROPERLY.
(Full story here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7529448/site/newsweek/.)
New York-
In a private letter to Sen. Bill Frist, 31 of the 165 members of his
Harvard Medical School class of 1978 accused him of using his medical
degree improperly, reports Chief Political Correspondent Howard
Fineman.
The letter was a response to Frist’s role in the case of the late
Terri Schiavo.
As she lay dying in Florida, Frist-who said he had reviewed court
documents and videos-appeared on the Senate floor.
Saying he "spoke more as a doctor than a senator," he declared that
"there seems to be insufficient information to conclude" that
Schiavo-an icon to religious conservatives-was in a "persistent
vegetative state" that would justify allowing her to die.
Frist’s office declined comment; according to public records, at least
13 of the 31 classmates had donated money to Democrats in the past
five years.
Still, Dr. Lewis Rose, an oncologist who said he voted for President
George W. Bush last year, insists Frist had overstepped.
"He had no right to use the cloak of the Hippocratic oath, no matter
who was right," Rose tells Newsweek.
"He’s got medical training and a medical perspective, but he is not a
practicing physician and has no business using that in politics.
Period. If he does, he won’t get any of his classmates’ votes who
signed this."
In his profile of Frist, which appears in the April 25 issue of
Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, April 18), Fineman reports that even
some Bible-belt Republicans were troubled by Frist’s planned
involvement in a nationally televised prayer service to be held at a
megachurch in Louisville next Sunday.
(The service focuses on the need to ease the Senate filibuster debate
rule so that the Republican majority can confirm Bush’s most
controversial judicial nominations. Frist’s role: a four-minute
videotape stressing a secular argument-that presidents deserve "up or
down" votes on all picks.)
The sponsoring Family Research Council’s flame-throwing
message-filibusters are anti-Christian-predictably infuriated
Democrats.
And Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told Newsweek,
"Questioning a senator’s motives in that way is a very dangerous
precedent. That goes to a level where the Senate has never gone
before. It is a very unhealthy turn of events."
The competition for the pre-presidential allegiance of the
Republicans’ grass-roots Christian soldiers is ferocious.
Among the less-encumbered competitors eager to outdo Frist is his
third-in-command, Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.
He told Newsweek that he would consider impeachment proceedings
against the federal judges in the Terri Schiavo case; that he favors
term limits for federal judges, and that he would consider redrawing
the boundaries of judicial districts to break up the liberal Ninth
Circuit.
Frist, aides say, does not support any such ideas.
Frist’s solution to an "out of control" judiciary is limited to easing
the filibuster rule.
But winning the vote to do so is a difficult task even though he has a
55-vote majority.
Three Republicans have abandoned him-including John McCain-and several
more have made noises about doing so.
Few think the compromise Frist will offer to the Democrats next week
will fly.
McCain, on his own, is also trying to work out a deal with some Red
State Democrats, Newsweek has learned.
And Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, whom Frist replaced as leader in a
painful episode, is pushing an uncompromisingly hard line-happy,
insiders say, to make life at the top uncomfortable for Frist.
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http://PerkinsTragedy.org http://www.rightard.org/
"Bible scholar" is just a euphemism for "unemployed."
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