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...agree that Americans such as Condoleezza Rice, software inventor Bram Cohen and to a limited extent New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer have achieved breakthroughs that the rest of the world can care about. I was not impressed, however, by your choice of Senate majority leader Bill Frist, Wal-Mart ceo Lee Scott and, goodness, actor Jamie Foxx, among others. It's like 2001 all over again, when Time chose Mayor Rudy Giuliani over the real Person of the Year, Osama bin Laden. The world is not the U.S., and the U.S. is not the world. Edwin Del Valle...
...governmental checks and balances is of utmost importance for a healthy political system. To act otherwise would be to jeopardize that which our founding fathers instituted to prevent a dangerous accumulation of power. However, the country is presently poised to neglect past wisdom as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. proposed to end the use of the filibuster on judicial nominations—the so-called “nuclear option.” And at stake is more than just a few judicial nominees; this would dramatically damage the foundations of our democracy, pulling partisanship and political extremism...
...feeling 'My gas prices are high and you're up there talking about Terry Schiavo and filibusters and blocking nominees and what does that have to do with me?'" When Congress spends its time on House Republican Leader Tom DeLay's ethical problems and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's quest to change filibuster rules to pass the president's conservative judicial nominees, Washington-and thus the president-seems out of touch. "The key communications problem is to take a variety of these disparate proposals like bankruptcy and energy and show how they're going to help the economy...
...appeared on one of the Sunday shows five times since the beginning of the year. But no one can top Delaware senator and potential 2008 presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has appeared on Sunday shows seven times. Other Republicans who are strong on the list include Senate Leaders Bill Frist and Mitch McConnell. The surprise in second place is Indiana. Sen. Dick Lugar. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar plays a key role in overseeing administration policy in Iraq, and unlike some Republicans, will occasionally criticize the President...
...Majority Leader Bill Frist: "I have great respect for Bill Frist. He's doing public service for the right reason, he's a wealthy man, he's a fine, fine physician and he's trying to do the right thing . . . . I personally don't think he'll run for president...