Bill Frist builds his own border fence.
By on Mar 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Bill Frist builds his own border fence.
Today, the Tennessean reports that former senator Bill Frist is “building an 8-foot wall around his home.” Frist’s contractor, however, is running into zoning regulations, which prohibit the enormous wall from being built too close to the adjacent avenue. Frist also wants to “put up gated entrance gates.”
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Why do so many republicans seem to have this “fence fetish?” They always want to build a fence or a border around something.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:52 amAin’t that picture Guantanamo?!?!? Sure looks like it.
Cheers,
March 18th, 2008 at 9:57 amWhat are you afraid of Senator Frist? Whatever it is you can’t build a wall strong enough to protect you.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:57 amTo quote the Ghost of Christmas Present: “are there no prisons?”. If Frist wants a fenced home, a prison would serve the same purpose. He could keep company with some of his Republican buddies who also belong behind a fenced yard.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:58 amAre the fences there to keep people out… or to keep him in?
March 18th, 2008 at 10:01 amA Republican builds an 8 foot wall around his home.
Could one dream up a better metaphor?
March 18th, 2008 at 10:04 amMaybe he knows that Bush has us headed for a financial disaster and he is trying to protect what he has. The rest of the 19%er’s can deny it all they want.
The signs are all there if you read them. When a GOP’er starts building a fence around his own property, it’s not a very good sign.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:09 amHey now, hey now, we’ll build a wall between us. -Ah Ha
Is DHS paying for this?
I thought Frist, being the brilliant videosurgeon that he is, may actually ‘be the fence’; kind of like when he was in office.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:09 am“Ain’t that picture Guantanamo?!?!? Sure looks like it.
Cheers, Zuch says”
I think so, but it could be his housekeeping staff coming to work? Why the hell doesn’t he go to Parguey so he can build a really great fence.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:12 amI’m all for building an eight foot tall fence in Texas as long as it’s electrified and used to contain every Republican Senator, Congressman, Administration official, several members of the Supreme Court, right wing talkshow hosts, some of those Blue Dog Dems and the myriad of former Goopers that are currently scurrying around the Country looking for speaking engagements and jobs at FAUX News! Maybe if they are contained ala Guantanamo we’ll finally have a chance to get this Country back on the correct path and hold these enemy combatants to our Constitution and American way of life in one place sans habeas corpus until they’re eventually (wink wink) charged with all the crimes against this Nation that they have been commiting like a pack of drunken pirates for the last eight years. Hell, we can even waterboard some of them into confessions seeing how it’s all legal and shit!
March 18th, 2008 at 10:13 amBilly-boy preparing for the revolution that will come after the collapse and launch of the NAU?
Or just preparing for what will happen when Americans finally find out exactly WHAT you and the Conservatives have done to us?
March 18th, 2008 at 10:13 amHe must be thrilled that he was recently able to sell his $7,800,000 house in DC in the crappy market. (He had to lower the price by $400,000).
Here’s some shots of the old Frist homestead in DC:
http://www.wfp.com/slideshow/WFPslideshow.asp?id=22737
March 18th, 2008 at 10:15 amCool. He built his own prison.
Any volunteers to protest outside his “home” 24/7? It sure would be nice to make him
March 18th, 2008 at 10:18 amscared to step out his doorfeel at home…Frist has every right to be afraid, and to want a fence for protection. The Feline Brotherhood has been trying to revenge themselves for years. To kitties, he’s Hitler.
The Black Cat squad has been circling his house for years; he can’t go anywhere without crossing one of their paths, making it very difficult for him to go out in the yard, or to go shopping, or to have dinner with friends, without something bad happening.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:22 amFrist is a man of the people. He just can’t stand coming into contact with any of them.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:22 am“Frist also wants to ‘put up gated entrance gates.’”
What does this even mean? Like doggie doors on doors?
March 18th, 2008 at 10:26 amThis SOB would look good in orange. His inside trading was more egregious than the Quest CEO who was sentenced to seven years for a similar offense. The difference was collaboration with the Bush Cabal.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:29 amWhy is there no mention of the ABMs?
March 18th, 2008 at 10:30 amSelf-styled prison for this criminal? Or maybe he’s getting set for martial law?
March 18th, 2008 at 10:33 amLocals just need to keep attaching their own locks to force the idiot into house arrest.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:35 amDieNowForPeace Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Locals just need to keep attaching their own locks to force the idiot into house arrest
OK, that’s it with this thread. There is no better post made, or possible. Fantastic!
March 18th, 2008 at 10:39 amI don’t have to actually see my patients to be able to diagnose them.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:44 amAgreed, PLC, DieNowForPeace; priceless!
March 18th, 2008 at 10:44 amSelf-imprisonment is freedom.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:52 amIs he going to be doing something to animals he doesn’t want people to know about?
March 18th, 2008 at 10:59 amThinkProgress is now actually covering requests for zoning variances?
Riveting.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:01 amIt’s all about CATS! They can’t jump that high, and they are mad!
March 18th, 2008 at 11:03 amBill,
Is bunker mentality starting to set in, now that you find yourself amongst the unclean masses? BTW, an 8 foot fence won’t save you.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:10 amWhat.
No moat?
March 18th, 2008 at 11:11 amThese paranoid reich wingers are building their own prisons.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:23 amExley does not recognize that TP is covering another example of a reality variance, not a zoning variance. Of course, there’s nothing new there.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:25 amWhen the fence is complete, The Senator will finally be able to pursue his “medical experiments” involving animals from the pound, in peace, which is all he says he’s really ever wanted.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:40 amIs Exley actually reading threads about zoning variances these days? Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:41 am#20….that is absolutely hilarious :)
March 18th, 2008 at 11:54 amKudos for #20! I was going to say that hopefully his big ol’ wall will keep him in. ;o)
And the “Black Cat Squad”…? BRILLIANT!! I suspect my cats are members. Heheh!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pmResidents of gated communities everywhere could be contained that way, and our economy would finally get itself in order again.
It’s never a case of “bad workers”, but it’s almost always a case of “bad management”
March 18th, 2008 at 12:07 pmThis is actually a good idea.
Can we make that wall 20ft tall, lock him inside, and throw away the key?
Can we? Please?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:08 pmNow here is a man of the people.
The former speaker of the house !
Shutting himself off to society just as he did as Speaker.
sort of a character flaw when you look at it. He doesn’t like people so that character reflected in his representation and his leafership role as speaker.
He doesn’t like the people he represented and wants to be shut away from them…
March 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pm“That is rather odd…”
2oddTracy…
March 18th, 2008 at 1:52 pmit’s just to keep all the groupies out.
he’s a popular guy.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pmI’m sure there are machine gun nests, electrified razor and barbed wires and, of course, dogs, gotta have dogs.
Seriously, I fear he’s involved in something new that we don’t know about yet.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pmHey, if it keeps him in and away from anyone else he might harm, I am all for it.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pm