Frist Flip-Flopping

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Frist on Schiavo Possibly Recovering: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist several times questioned Schiavo's diagnosis, saying he had reviewed a videotape of her and her case file and wasn't sure whether she really was beyond recovery.

"Remember, Terri is alive. She is not in a coma," Frist said Sunday. "Although there are a range of opinions, neurologists who have examined her insist today that she is not in a persistent vegetative state. She breathes on her own - like you and me. She is not on a respirator. She is not on life support of any type. She does not have a terminal condition." (The Tennessean, 3/22/05)

Frist Attacking Edwards: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist attacked Sen. John Edwards for saying that stem cell research would enable people like Christopher Reeve to “get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”

Frist responded on a conference call with reporters arranged by the Bush-Cheney campaign: "I find it opportunistic to use the death of someone like Christopher Reeve -- I think it is shameful -- in order to mislead the American people… We should be offering people hope, but neither physicians, scientists, public servants or trial lawyers like John Edwards should be offering hype.

“It is cruel to people who have disabilities and chronic diseases, and, on top of that, it's dishonest. It's giving false hope to people, and I can tell you as a physician who's treated scores of thousands of patients that you don't give them false hope." (CNN.com, 10/12/04)

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[Daliman]

Big surprise the standard righty guys have no comments on this...

[cardcounter0]

Funny Fox News hasn't picked up on this story.

[Stock Whiz]

In the game of life, Democrats are the rake.

[elwoodblues]

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That quote is the poster-child of "trying to sound clever, but really sounding like a moron."

[whiskeytown]

How about GWB signing a bill in Texas that let's a physician make the decision to pull the plug on people in a vegative state and then changing his mind in 2005.

I don't blame GWB though - GWB reminds me of Derek Zoolander - people are throwing bananas at him and telling him to dance and he just does it [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

RB

[Felix_Nietsche]

So Frist is:
1. Against over-hyping stem cell research.
2. Expressed concerned over the accuracy of the diagnoses regarding T.Sciavo.

So.....where is the flip-flop?
If this is the best you got on a Republican 'flip-flop', then you libs are getting desperate.

[whiskeytown]

maybe hypocritical is a better word then flip flop or irony -

RB

[vulturesrow]

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RB

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Actually neither one is any bit better. This is a non-story. I think the term best used is "grasping at straws".

[QuadsOverQuads]

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Big surprise the standard righty guys have no comments on this...

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Don't worry, they'll chime in just as soon as Party Headquarters tells them what the Official Party Response is supposed to be.


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