Frist more comfortable with ports deal

[sabra]

http://localnewsleader.com/jackson/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=150500

Frist more comfortable with ports deal


WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Tuesday that more information had made him more comfortable with a deal for a state-owned Dubai company to manage terminals at major U.S. seaports.

Last week Frist asked the Bush administration to put the deal on hold, saying it needed a more thorough review. Over the weekend, the White House and the company, Dubai Ports World, agreed to a new, 45-day security review of the contract, which closes this week.

"As I‘ve gotten more information, I have a greater comfort level" with the Bush administration‘s decision granting approval of the deal, Frist, a Tennessee Republican, said.

Asked if he would bring legislation affecting the ports deal to the Senate floor while the new 45-day review is going on, Frist said, "No."

[eleny]

1. He's toast

[Massachusetts]

18. "He's toast"

Frist is nothing more than a fraud and a Milque Toast! Viva la Democratic Revolution!

[rodeodance]

2. damn. bush have him a pillow to sit on and now he is too comfortable to

get up and do this job!!111

[barbaraann]

3. I guess he started using kneepads.

eom

[0007]

16. Warning!! Very gross......Bill Frist in action.

[barbaraann]

20. Well, you did warn me!!

LOL!

[babylonsister]

4. Does anyone have a pic of Frist as marionette, because

it would certainly apply here!

Edit to add:

This works in a pinch:

[AlCzervik]

5. they must have a big file on him, especially his financials.

[UpInArms]

6. "I'm now very comfortable," Frist grits from between his teeth,

as he attempts to sit with the DP World Ports agreement shoved up his arse.

[Megahurtz]

7. Oh, I guess if Frist feels better

then I do too.:sarcasm:

[xultar]

8. Some one check his ass for shoes.

[Megahurtz]

23. Lol!

:D

[Webster Green]

9. What a useless POS he is..

Why would anyone give a shit what Frist thinks about anything?

Didn't he lose all credibility with the Sciavo fiasco?

[BattyDem]

10. I wonder what BushCo got on him through the wiretaps

It must be big! :eyes:

[Roland99]

11. "more information"? Since when did threats = information?

[sattahipdeep]

12. Which closes this week. n/t

[Tempest]

13. The check cleared

The big fat campaign contribution from DPW.

[Solly Mack]

14. translation: unless we unite on this port deal and back Bush, the GOP

will come out looking worse.

So in order to convince our base the port deal is OK, we, as republicans, must agree the port deal is OK - and our base will follow.


Or will it?

I especially like the way he claims that more information made him more comfortable - as in the more informed you are the better decisions you make (which is true) - however, will Frist's other choices and decision pass the sniff test when measured against that truism?

Amazing how handy "being informed" comes in- unless it comes to reading the Patriot Act, making a diagnosis from the video of a blind, brain-dead woman, illegal wars, spying on Americans, planes crashing into buildings..etc. etc. etc. (the list is long)

and really, isn't the "I'm now better informed" line just another way of saying "we invaded Iraq because we knew things the people didn't know"???? - Cause it's not like anyone is informing the people of this comforting new information is it?

[lumpy]

15. Now how did we know that

Frist would 'come around' ?

[KansDem]

17. He must have seen the deal on videotape...

He's good at collecting information that way...

[Az_lefty]

19. Frist would feel comfortable with a monkeys dong in his rectum...

that's one of the qualifications of being a Republican today.
Fu*king traitor!
:puke:

[ninkasi]

21. His comfort level

is of absolutely no importance to me. The man is an idiot, and doesn't care one bit what is good or bad for America. His only consideration is what's good for the Republican party, and what will please his puppet master, Bush. Since Bush is, himself a puppet of the corporate world, they are both two useless creatures good only for draining the Treasury and pleasing the corporate world.

[genieroze]

22. what a ho bag.

[lonestarnot]

24. What he saw a video and now the deal lives?

[sendero]

25. This was completely predictable...

... and Hastert, as well as most of the Repug detractors will make similar backtracks. This is GOOD FOR DEMS, because no amount of spin is going to make MOST AMERICANS 'comfortable' with this deal.

This is an opportunity for Dems to DIFFERENTIATE themselves, but I don't dare get my hopes up because snatching defeat from the jaws of victory seems to be a Dem specialty here lately.