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Frist Asks the Impossible

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Posted on Oct 26, 2006
Bill Frist
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said if Republican candidates want to win in November, they should get voters to focus on issues other than the Iraq war.

(h/t: AMERICAblog)

AP (via CBS News):

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says if Republican candidates want to succeed on Election Day, they should turn their focus away from the Iraq war.

“The challenge is to get Americans to focus on pocketbook issues, and not on the Iraq and terror issue,” Frist said in an interview with the Concord Monitor on Tuesday.

Frist suggested that Republicans remind voters of subjects like tax cuts and lower gas prices, the result, he said, of the energy bill passed by Congress last year.

“These are all things the media has not covered,” Frist said. “People don’t say, ‘This Congress passed tax cuts.’ But that means something to every American.”

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By Bob, October 27, 2006 at 8:45 am #
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Instead of repeating Democrat talking points you guys should do some research on the information you comment on.  I know it’s easy just to always believe what the liberal media tells you.  Here’s a suggestion instead of being a Democratic puppet, look up the information and come up with your own opinions.

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By Blue Girl, Red State, October 27, 2006 at 12:16 am #
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I read that and had to wipe my latest swig of coffee of the screen.

Then I blogged it.

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By John, October 26, 2006 at 12:25 pm #
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Consider the source.  This guy is a medical doctor who suggested that AIDS could be spread through tears and tried to diagnose Terri Schiavo by videotape.

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By Stephen, October 26, 2006 at 11:56 am #
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Pretty typical right-wing tripe: “Don’t think about anyone but yourself. Don’t think about the sons and daughters who are dying in Iraq because of Bush’s lies and failed policies. Don’t think about your children having a clean environment in the future. Don’t think about the way we’ve (republicans) taken christianity hostage in order to advance our hateful social policies. Just think about your own wallet and what’s good for YOU.”

It’s time for the republicans to go.

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By Sharleen Nicholson, October 26, 2006 at 10:11 am #
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My grandmother prided herself on the fact she had survived the great depression without taking one dime from the government.
Today, President Bush and my congress invite all of Mexico into our country to live off our welfare system, use food stamps, social services, schools and hospitals until they are depleted.
I find I believe nothing Bush says.  I don’t believe he will build the fence he promised and signed into law this day. Bush and ex-presidente Fox have an agenda Bush is not revealing.  No one asked me if I wanted to support illegal aliens and Mexico. It should have come to a vote. 
Bush frightens me.  The people make laws which he ignores as he continues to rule like an unchecked dictator.  Only his will counts and he will not budge.  Our congress fails to check his deals, which always benefit the other side.
He has gotten me so angry and frustrated that I want to screm whenever I see his face on my TV.  I have never hated my president before.
As he forces my culture, heritage and language to the side, in favor of the needs and values of illegal immigrants, I am beginning to feel like a beggar in my own country. 
The slogan of La Raza is:  Por La Raza todo; fuera de La Raza nada.  It means:  for the race everything; outside the race nothing.  This Latino group received 15 million in federal grants this year. 
Maybe we should just give the country to Mexico now and forgo the grief.  They can teach us Spanish and how to act in Greater Mexico.

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By sharon ash, October 26, 2006 at 9:40 am #
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In today’s news, Exxon Mobil reported third quarter earnings of $10.49 billion, which is the second largest ever reported by a publicly traded U.S. company.  Any tax break given to the average American, has long since been lost to the oil companies, in fuel prices at the gas pumps.  The War in Iraq, creates a need for about a 25% increase in oil use for the military operation there, so the war is tied to the increased prices.  I do not remember exactly what the price per barrel was during the Clinton Administration, but it was somewhere in the $40’s and today, of course, it is somewhere in the $70’s.  The fact that the Iraq War has created a greater demand for oil, is one of those hidden costs to Americans which is never factored into those known (sort of known)billions being spent on the military operation. And as far as the robust economic picture,if you consider giving the Bush Administration a credit card with no debt limit and for which our children’s children will have to pay, robust, then you are in the “hopelessly head in the sand crowd”. I am sure that in actuality, Mr. Frist would rather talk about almost anything than the Bush Administration which has failed both on the international and domestic front and which he fully supports.

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By Larry Anklam, October 26, 2006 at 6:27 am #
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“What an ASS. Do we really only care about the money in our pockets and not about our American soldiers who are dying in vain?”

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By Chris, October 26, 2006 at 4:39 am #
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Lower gas prices?  Is this guy smoking crack with his male interns?  Last time I looked gas prices are still outrageously high.  Granted they have come down in the last 5-6 weeks, but I’m pretty certain they are going to go up again sometime around 8pm pacific time november 7th, or possibly in the early hours of Nov. 8th.  The fact is; Gas prices have shot up ever since the Bush administration took office.  Seems logical tho, afterall a majority of the Bush administration has deep seeded oil ties.

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