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...most surprising support for Foster came from Bill Frist of Tennessee. A heart-and-lung surgeon and conservative first termer who is against abortion, Frist startled Republicans and Democrats with sympathetic questions for Foster from the committee. Frist said he understands the problems obstetricians and gynecologists face treating low-income women. "I know he must have seen botched abortions, women coming in the hospital door, bleeding," said Frist, adding he was aware too of the segregation suffered by black doctors. "I'm the only person on that panel who knows what it was like in the South in the 1960s...
Tennessee Democrat Jim Sasser was a candidate for the Senate floor leadership, before his November defeat at the hands of surgeon and hospital owner Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). Now, he will be leading a study session to discuss the future of the Democratic party...
...vain. Doctors, even wealthy ones, rank well above politicians in public esteem. No one gave a hoot about the kittens, or where Frist would find the spending cuts, as long as he wanted to cut. Sasser lost by 212,843 votes...
...time Sasser got serious, he couldn't adjust to the new landscape, where promising to bring a multimillion dollar federal wind-tunnel project was just what the voters had soured on. Sasser triumphed in their first debate, but Frist turned his lackluster performance into another sign that he wasn't a smoothie from the big city. Sasser then turned negative, pointing out that Dr. Frist had masqueraded as a pet lover to get cats from an animal shelter to use in lab experiments, that he had not even registered to vote until six years ago. The Senator pointed...
...Washington is a certain kind of theme park that newcomers enter at their own risk. Old immunities disappear as members are forced to take positions and cast votes, providing the very specifics to voters and potential opponents they so carefully avoided this campaign. Unless overnight sensations like Stockman and Frist perform sensationally, they may find the broom that swept the old coots out of office ready to be used again...