Frist: Ignore the Iraq war.
By on Oct 25th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Frist: Ignore the Iraq war.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said today that if conservatives want to be reelected, “they should turn their focus away from the Iraq war.” Frist told the Concord Monitor, “The challenge is to get Americans to focus on pocketbook issues, and not on the Iraq and terror issue.”
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Wow, we sure have come a long way. Just a few short months ago, Rove and co. insisted on making this election about security and the war. Now, the majority leader in the Senate is running away from it.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:19 pmToo bad Frist isn’t running for reelection. It’d be fun to see him lose like Daschle did a few years ago.
America’s Least Wanted
Some say “Dr.” Frist is currently out looking for several brain dead individuals to focus on for a few days each over the next couple of weeks to take the attention off Iraq. Some say high on his list of candidates are Mighty Aphrodite, Jason Hendler, and Daryll right here from the Think Progress troll ghetto.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:19 pmIs the voting public so blind? I think it’s insulting.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:22 pmSomebody needs to tell Frist nothing is going to work. Especially when Cheney is saying things like this…
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15847918.htm
Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding
Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called “water-boarding,” which creates a sensation of drowning.
Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn’t regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it. “It’s a no-brainer for me,” Cheney said at one point in an interview.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:24 pm——–
I heard on Democracy Now yesterday that there are republicans who are not up for reelection who are chomping at the bit to hold the Bush administration accountable for some of their actions. They are waiting for the Democrats to get the majority.
Anyone ever seen (UK) ‘Faulty Towers’?
‘WHAT EVER YOU DO DON’T MENTION THE WAR! I MENTIONED IT ONCE AND I THINK I GOT AWAY WITH IT!!!’
What ever you do don’t mention the ELEPHANT in the room….some people will be trampled to death but maybe no one else will notice…..
What’s sadder is that there is SO much else besides the war.
Sad isn’t it.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:33 pmFrisk needs to see a REAL doctor about he MENTAL CONDITION…
October 25th, 2006 at 9:33 pm..as for boss cheney, WHEN you waterborded thoes people,it was AGAINST THE LAW,so I just know you will TURN YOURSELF IN…but first..let’s waterboard YOU so you’ll know in your electric heart that it’s not TORTURE..and it’s just being ‘overly friendly’ with people you did this to.
But but Mr Santorum says the terrorists will get worse if he is not re-elected!!
October 25th, 2006 at 9:39 pmHey, yeah! Republicans should start ignoring the war!
Good idea, Cat Killer.
I hope they still listen to Fristy.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:47 pmBill Frist is being haunted by the ghost of Morris the Cat that he murdered back in his Kitty Mengele’ days.
Why anyone would listen to this callow charlatan is beyond me.
Go back to Crackerville and take your racist colleagues with you and leave the little fluffy kittens alone.
-GSD
October 25th, 2006 at 9:49 pmGo back to Crackerville and take your racist colleagues with you and leave the little fluffy kittens alone.
-GSD
The animal shelters probably have Frist’s picture in all the adoption offices — as a warning.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:57 pmYeah, but the war IS a pocketbook issue. (among other things, of course) How can you call $337 BILLION not a pocketbook issue?
October 25th, 2006 at 10:06 pmThe challenge is to get Americans to focus on pocketbook issues, and not on the Iraq and terror issue.
Cutting and running from the terror issue, Sen Frist?
That talk sends the wrong message to our troops and can only embolden the terrorists.
By trying to steer away from Iraq, you just proved Republicans are weak on security. After all, we all know we are fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them over here.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:17 pm#6
Frist must be from “Barcelona” the vicious bastard
October 25th, 2006 at 10:39 pm#6
October 25th, 2006 at 10:41 pmGourney,
Excellent.
he must expect a pardon
October 25th, 2006 at 10:41 pmhahahahahahhhhahahahahhahahahahahah
Some final sputterings from a has-been Senator. Its not a bad idea if people are distracted so easily, and….
October 25th, 2006 at 10:52 pmOne desperate Republiscum after another. Frist is pathetic. Don’t even talk about Iraq – let’s pretend it’s not happening. Focus on the stock market instead. There is something terribly wrong with them and whatever it is is affecting their mental states. They should all retire.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:53 pmYeah…
Ignore the war. There’s a good strategy.
Ignore the nearly 3000 service men and women dead.
Ignore the over 20,000 service men and women injured. Some are permanently disfigured.
Ignore the estimated 500,000 Iraqi civilians dead.
And while we’re at it, ignore the Taliban’s return to power.
Ignore the poppy/heroin trade returning back to its original highs in Afghanistan (pun intended)
Ignore the fact the bin Laden is still at large.
GOP = murderous, criminal, baby-killing scum.
God I hope they lose. And I hope this gansta prez gets impeached.
October 25th, 2006 at 11:03 pmOT but related:
October 25th, 2006 at 11:05 pmCheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding
By Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers
Well I say, let ‘em. I like pocketbook issues for the Dems: $6300 a second for their fraudulant war, Social Security net-ripping private accounts, health costs for the average family raising double the rate of anything else, no raise in minimum wage for – what – 7 years, while the top 1% of wealth Americans get humongus tax breaks. Heck – LET’s talk pocketbook issues!!
October 25th, 2006 at 11:15 pmThey should turn their focus away from the Iraq war, but it’s an awfully difficult maneuver when you head’s buried in the sand.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:17 amAnother fitting quote from Faulty Towers:
“I know nothinnggg!”
October 26th, 2006 at 3:25 amIt’s quite hard to have Americans focus on their pocketbooks when their family members are risking their lives every single day in a futile war that was lied for by the ‘president’ . A ‘president’ who’s so full of himself and so disrespectful to God and country that he dares claim he’s the only one capable of stopping this menace to the world. Bush is in fact Superman and he’s the only one that can see the threat of islamofascism and ‘the black man’ with his supervision. Like Jack Black said: A neocon is someone who goes to see the movie ‘the matrix’ and believes it is real. Bush himself is a bigger threat to justice, world peace and REASON than any terrorist, any non-democratic country, any nuclear power, any dictator, any communist, any democrat,….. no supervision needed to see that! Just a little brains will do…..
October 26th, 2006 at 4:54 amOctober 26th, 2006 at 6:30 am
October 26th, 2006 at 7:49 am
Soooo. ignore the war and focus on the pocketbooks of the American people… Well… yeah.. cuz the republucans are doing SO GOOD there. I shouldn’t be drinking coffee when I read this. I almost spewed on my keyboard.
Go on Republicans… Let’s focus on the pocketbook. Let’s look at domestic issues. Where shall we start? Patriot Act? Airline ticket prices? Global Warming? The largest deficit ever (that guess who will have to pay off)? Immigration? The country on the verge of a recession? Stocks freezing because everyone is seeing a drop in the market next year?? You pick one..
October 26th, 2006 at 7:54 amSeems to me like the Republican’s have always been for ignoring the war, based on their actions, not their words.
October 26th, 2006 at 8:03 amFirst, (Frist)
Hmmm, remind me again Why a senator who is Majority leader of the senate, one of the 4 most powerful positions in the world, decide to NOT run for reelection? And don’t tell me one LEAVES a position such as this to run for president, A MORE powerful one. I predict charges will be brought before Frist for his insider trading of stock.
But i digress.
Comment by Paul Jackson — October 25, 2006 @ 10:06 pm
HOW MUCH MORE TRUER AND DIRECT CAN IT BE SAID?
October 26th, 2006 at 8:13 amSpending OUR children’s future on a war of greed for the elite IS TOTALLY a pocketbook issue.
Is that from the “If we ignore it, maybe it will go away” school of thought??
Nuts…
October 26th, 2006 at 9:13 amHe is correct,
The Iraq war is a mess and something that won’t help Repugs. Pocketbook issues are always a win. Dems afterall will raise everyone’s taxes, meaning less in your pocketbook. It is a winner for Repugs.
October 26th, 2006 at 9:19 amReminds me of another line out of another “FANTASY” story:
“Ignore the little man behind the curtain, I am the magnificant OZ”
October 26th, 2006 at 9:23 amLeave it to the in-the-closet chickenhawk Right to pick a fight, and then walk away talking about handbags and pocketbooks.
October 26th, 2006 at 9:45 am#2 LOL, but you forgot Roger_Roger.
October 26th, 2006 at 9:58 amHas Frist diagnosed Michael J. Fox via video yet?
October 26th, 2006 at 10:08 amI’m sure he can tell FOX IS FAKING IT.
(Fox newsk that is.)
Who would Jesus water-board?!
October 26th, 2006 at 11:01 amFocus on pocketbook issues? I’m afraid that’s only going to work for getting the rich people’s vote, they’re the ones benefitting from the rise in the stock market. The rest of us are treading water, waiting for the dificit to fall on our heads. Sure. Focus on pocketbook issue, that’ll work.
October 26th, 2006 at 11:16 amHow can Frist say to ignore the war and concentrate on pocketbook issues? The was *is* a pocketbook issue… we’ll be paying for the war for many years to come. How can anyone ignore the cost of this thing?
BTW, I’m not trying to imply the the war is *only* a pocketbook issue, I’m just saying that it isn’t free and has been far more expensive that promised.
October 26th, 2006 at 5:42 pmI could have sworn
the battle for CIVILISATION was being fought in the streets of Bagdad ?
Oh wait that was only Bush.
October 26th, 2006 at 7:54 pm