Frist Flopping...

Senate Majortity Leader Dr. Bill Frist ought to be at the top of his game right now, ought to be but he ain't.
On paper, he is formidable, a southern conservative, a pious bible worshipping xian (therefore a theocrat and a proud one), an MD from Harvard, vain, arrogant, narrow minded he is therefore the perfect GOP candidate for higher office.
And yet for all that, Bill is shapng up to be a spectacular political failure.
His every visit to the White House occasions a horrible scuttling sycophantic performance. His long range "diagnosis" of the late Mrs Terri Schiavo has been exposed as errant nonsense and Frist proved too whipped to tell Meet the Press' Phat Tim Russert proper AID's preventative measures out of fears of his angry fundamentalist constituents.
H.L. Mencken once gushed that Harvard University was a fine school as they "hadn't graduated a single wowser in 150 years". In the personal of Majority Leader Frist, that long and celebrated streak has at last been broken.
Now suddenly, this DOctor who gets serious medical advice from backwater parsonages has come out hard for stem cell research.
We can now safely add indecision to Frist's list of vices and shortcomings.
I suspect the science behind stem cells must be pretty irrefutable if a toady and yap like Frist can change sides so swiftly.
That and the pro-stem cell forces are well organized, with a simple message and a host of telegenic personalities to press the matter.
If Frist behinds in the wind from the White House, there is nothing to prevent him from succumbing to pressures from another direction- remember that.

To contend for president in the GOP primaries, one must have a lot of money and run as a hero, be it a war hero (McCain), religious fanatic (Santorum) or the barefoot boy from the executive suite (Romney).
How Frist with his ever lengthening record for failure and equivocation recasts himself as a hero in 2008, I do not know.

Sick
Demented
Typical...