Frist aides appeal for calm

[ProudToBeLiberal]

Frist aides appeal for calm
By Alexander Bolton


Senior aides to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) reached out to conservative leaders Tuesday afternoon to explain the decision to consider President Bush’s embattled judicial nominees next week instead of this week, as many conservatives had hoped and expected.

Eric Ueland, Frist’s chief of staff, and Bill Wichterman, a senior Frist aide who handles outreach to outside groups, held a conference call with about 30 conservative activist leaders to tell them that the majority leader has moved slowly and deliberately in an effort to put Republicans in a strong position heading into a showdown with Democrats, according to participants.

The call was considered sensitive enough that Frist’s staff used a scrambling device to prevent it from being recorded by participants.

Conservatives were told that Frist has held off on triggering a procedural tactic that would shield judicial nominees from filibusters to give the GOP leadership more time to explore a possible compromise with Democrats and to strengthen the support of Republican senators for the controversial move, known as the nuclear or constitutional option.


more at...http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/051205/frist.html

[Career Prole]

1. Like Harry said...

Hold the vote!

You're just as yella as your preznit, Frist.

[Vox_Reason]

2. Frist aides appeal for calm in wake of red-assing of Frist

Aides to senator Bill Frist appealed for calm from Bible-beating fundies and supporters of cat vivisection after Frist was completely annihilated on the Senate floor today by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

"What can you say, really? I mean, Senator Frist was pretty much hammered," said one staffer, studiously examining his cell phone and avoiding the camera. "He did make a fairly heroic retreat at one point, didn't he? Didn't he?"

Observers spoke with one voice about the degree to which Frist was taken to school by Byrd, the Dean of the Senate.

"Senator Byrd pretty much took Frist to the woodshed and ripped him a couple of new ones," said BillyBob McWingnut, a Senate observer. "Frist seemed to sputter and stagger for a while, and then he just had to cut and run because the bleeding was just getting too bad. I hope C-Span doesn't re-run this pimp-slapping that Mr. Frist has just endured."

But unfortunately they are, BillyBob--in about 15 minutes on C-Span2!

EAT IT, YOU ETHICALLY BANKRUPT RETHUGNICAN HYPOCRITES!!!!!

[lyonn]

8. Byrd was just too special

He truly had Frist stammering. Byrd never lost his pace even when Frist kept interrupting to make stupid statements ("up or down vote").

[blondeatlast]

3. THAT caused a paniced call to (I suspect) the Heritage Foundation?

That's just DELICIOUS.

STAND THE BULLIES DOWN, AMERICA!

Oh, this is just too good!

:rofl:

[mmonk]

4. So that's why he picked up his ball today and left.

He was seeking a compromise.

[AlGore-08.com]

5. I think that Frist thinks that all this is win/win for him

Even if he can't change the filibuster rules, the Dems are going to be open to the charge of being "obstructionists", especially if they filibuster and shut down the Senate.

I'm not saying he's right, I'm just saying that's what I think he's thinking...


editted for clarity

[still_one]

7. 95% of *s judges have been approved

the 5% were rejected the first time because they are extremists

let the truth come out, and see what happens

[still_one]

6. screw frist and his aides

no compromise

they started this let them eat it

[Inland]

9. Frist threatens a nuking, then asks for calm restraint. What a tool. nt

[seemslikeadream]

10. Senator Byrd asks HOW MUCH LAND DOES ONE MAN NEED?

And this fear made him still more breathless. Pahóm went on running, his soaking shirt and trousers stuck to him, and his mouth was parched. His breast was working like a blacksmith's bellows, his heart was beating like a hammer, and his legs were giving way as if they did not belong to him. Pahóm was seized with terror lest he should die of the strain.

Though afraid of death, he could not stop. 'After having run all that way they will call me a fool if I stop now,' thought he. And he ran on and on, and drew near and heard the Bashkírs yelling and shouting to him, and their cries inflamed his heart still more. He gathered his last strength and ran on.

The sun was close to the rim, and cloaked in mist looked large, and red as blood. Now, yes now, it was about to set! The sun was quite low, but he was also quite near his aim. Pahóm could already see the people on the hillock waving their arms to hurry him up. He could see the fox-fur cap on the ground, and the money on it, and the Chief sitting on the ground holding his sides. And Pahóm remembered his dream.

'There is plenty of land,' thought he, 'but will God let me live on it? I have lost my life, I have lost my life! I shall never reach that spot!'

Pahóm looked at the sun, which had reached the earth: one side of it had already disappeared. With all his remaining strength he rushed on, bending his body forward so that his legs could hardly follow fast enough to keep him from falling. Just as he reached the hillock it suddenly grew dark. He looked up -- the sun had already set! He gave a cry: 'All my labour has been in vain,' thought he, and was about to stop, but he heard the Bashkírs still shouting, and remembered that though to him, from below, the sun seemed to have set, they on the hillock could still see it. He took a long breath and ran up the hillock. It was still light there. He reached the top and saw the cap. Before it sat the Chief laughing and holding his sides. Again Pahóm remembered his dream, and he uttered a cry: his legs gave way beneath him, he fell forward and reached the cap with his hands.

'Ah, that's a fine fellow!' exclaimed the Chief 'He has gained much land!'

Pahóm's servant came running up and tried to raise him, but he saw that blood was flogging from his mouth. Pahóm was dead!

The Bashkírs clicked their tongues to show their pity.

His servant picked up the spade and dug a grave long enough for Pahóm to he in, and buried him in it. Six feet from his head to his heels was all he needed.

http://www.ccel.org/t/tolstoy/23_tales/htm/vii.iii.htm

[Straight Shooter]

11. "... known as the nuclear or constitutional option."

Sorry, Alexander Bolton, author of this article. It's known as the nuclear option and hyped as the constitutional option.

I despise these sycophants who suck up to conservative rhetoric.