Radar Online: Frist 2008 Presidential bid being kneecapped...by the GOP?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

A Frist Time For Everything

http://www.radarmagazine.com/fresh-intelligence/#report_003430

Conspiracy-minded Capitol Hill insiders are saying the probe of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist smells of political retribution—from the right.

Frist’s suspiciously timed decision to unload shares in his family’s company, Hospital Corporation of America, only days before the firm announced it would not meet projected earnings last July did raise eyebrows. But the fact that the investigation was spearheaded by Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Bush’s legal crony, and SEC Chairman (and former Republican congressman) Chris Cox, has observers on both sides of the aisle wondering if it’s an effort to kneecap the senator before he can announce his 2008 presidential bid. (Cox has since recused himself).

Frist, after all, was once a loyal enforcer of the Bush agenda—famously sacrificing his own medical cred to give Terri Schiavo a clean bill of health—but has recently incurred the ire of his former hard-line comrades by embracing stem cell research and calling for an independent look into the federal bungling of Katrina. Which, in Rove-speak, one Hill insider says, means its open season on Frist.

“We were hearing murmurings of this happening weeks ago, but everyone was so involved in Katrina and no one believed it,” a Republican Senate staffer tells us. “Why would the Bush administration investigate their own senate leader? It just seems preposterous until you look at Frist’s behavior of late and Rove’s new allegiance to (Kansas Senator Sam) Brownback.” While legal experts agree that insider trading will be nearly impossible to prove—Frist, after all, swears he requested the sale in April and had it approved in advance by two ethics committees—the probe can only cripple the senator’s presidential ambitions, we’re told.

[texpatriot2004]

1. I thought Frist just announced he was retiring?

My personal opinion is that he's retiring to a jail cell but hey.

[AtomicKitten]

2. All the cats he killed took a vote - Frist's out.

Oh, yeah, and all those pesky financial dealings. Plus the video diagnosis of Terri Schiavo from the Senate floor would make an excellent anti-Frist ad.

[loudsue]

3. Ooops! As long as Frist is still Senate Majority Leader...

And boosh may be looking at impeachment, I wouldn't be trying to mess with Frist if I was boosh or Rove.

Rove himself could face some nasty questioning in Congress if this Plame thing bites him in the arse, too. It's pretty tough to face people you've tried to destroy, and ask them for a "favor", ya know?

:kick:

[rurallib]

4. It was never about stem cells as I see it.

Bushco is looking for someone to take over the evil empire. That someone must be dumb as a box of rocks and able to follow orders while looking good telling 'Murica that all is well.
Who could that be? Surely not Frist, nor Gingerich, nor Rudy, nor Tom D., nor Santorum nor Huckabee. No, I believe the annopinted one is George Allen, whose career parallels Chimpies to some degree. Dumb, pretty, can speak well and easily manipulated. See, someone is going to be the titular head of one of the biggest crime families ever. That person better not be smart enough to figure out what's going on.
So each pretender will fall as Allen's star rises and the BFEE can continue it's evil ways.
Only my opinion. If this comes true, I can only hope I am drinking a Molson with my kids in Vancouver.