In the wake of, um, ***** Yourself, uh... Gate..., plenty of
conservatives have made asses of themselves trying to defend *****
Cheney's crude language on the Senate floor.
But Sen. Bill Frist rose above the rest of the turds and floated
sedately at the top of the GOP toilet bowl last week.
Frist - the Senate Majority Leader - refused to criticize Cheney for
the remarks he made to Sen. Leahy, sniffing, "I'll let the American
people judge as to whether or not it was warranted... I am not going
to condone, I am not going to overly criticize the language that
people in the - the language that people use to express themselves."
Right... so that couldn't have been our Bill who "vowed" back at the
start of June to pass a bill vastly increasing fines on broadcasters
who air "indecency."
(The bill passed on the same day that Cheney dropped the F-Bomb.)
Frist's hypocrisy doesn't stop there though.
Last week we noted that Senate Republicans had prevented John Kerry
from voting on a veterans healthcare bill - well, it turns out that
this was all Bill Frist's doing.
According to Tom Daschle:
"Senator Frist noted to me as he was standing here that he didn't want
to accord Senator Kerry the opportunity to vote today."
And Frist said, "Senator Kerry, who hadn't been here all year, who's
missed 80 percent of all votes this year, parachutes in for a day, and
then he'll be taking off once again."
Funny that.
Apparently Bill Frist doesn't mind when Arlen Specter is out
campaigning - he was recently spotted flying around on Bush's airplane
and trolling for votes in Pennsylvania before he had to "get back for
some votes."
According to Knight Ridder, "Frist made it clear that although Kerry
may be the de facto Democratic presidential nominee, in the Senate he
wields no more clout than any of the other 99 senators."
Cool, so Kerry will get equal treatment.
Then I guess Bill Frist won't be playing any more politics with
veterans' health care in order to waste his time.
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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