Dr./Sen. Bill Frist is in a persistent vegetative state

At least he must be, because every single stance he takes on a medical or scientific issue makes him look like a complete and absolute idiot.

Over the winter, Dr/Sen Frist, in supporting President Bush's plan for funding sexual education programs developed by ultraconservative education groups (some of which contained claims like "Mutual masturbation without intercourse can result in pregnancy"), basically came out and said that he believed that AIDS can be spread via contact with sweat and tears.

SWEAT AND TEARS?!?!? Yeah, and the earth was created in 144 hours.

Then in March, he sponsored a bill to allow congress to intervene in the Terri Schivo case (because, since congress only seems to cause problems for the entire population, they decided to start passing bills on a person to person basis). Then, in an unprecidented show of stupidity, he said, after having no actual contact with Ms. Schivo whatsoever andonly having seen a couple hours of video tape and BY HIS OWN ADMISSION did not read ANY of her medical reports, said he didn't think she was in a persistent vegetative state...

Of course, a month after she died and the autopsy was performed, it was revealed that her brain had shrunk to about half its original size, that she was blind, and that, of course, she had been in a persistent vegetative state for several years...

Now, today, he has gone before the Senate in a dramatic reversal, in support of Stem Cell Research, causing a major rift in the GOP and turning against President Bush on the issue.

First, don't get me wrong, I couldn't be happier with his reversal. We need to be persuing widespread Stem Cell Research to cure debilitating diseases like alzheimers and other degenerative disorders. However, I feel the need to point out how idiotic his logic is.

Let's look at some quotes from his speech today:

"I am pro-life...I believe that human life begins at conception."
-Okay, so in his mind, when a sperm and an egg combine, a human life is created.

"I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported."
-...okay, so even though a fertilized egg is a life (Again, in his mind. This isn't necessarily what I think.) it is okay to murder these people to harvest stem cells from them.

So Bill Frist wants us to legalize what he considers murder.

Now I don't really believe that's what he thinks. I think he's just stupid; as if the AIDS and the Terri Schivo things didn't do enough to prove it.

Why did God make his most ardent supporters so dumb? Maybe it's just further evidence that God doesn't agree with them.

You're killing me Sandra

What the hell are you trying to do O'Conner?

Even if Rheinquist doesn't retire, he doesn't have 2 years left in him. He will very likely die before the end of Bush's term, and you just decide to go ahead and get out? You'r giving the mose horrendous ideologue of a president we've ever had not one, but TWO justice spots to fill?

What the hell are you thinking?!?

Couldn't you have stuck it out for 2 more years?

And now he's going to replace you, one of two women, with another white man.

Your logic escapes me, Sandra. I'm really disappointed.

Judge...who?

Judge Roberts...who the hell is Judge Roberts?

Well, apparently he's Bush's nomination for Sandra Day O'Conner's spot on the Supreme Court.

I've never even heard of this guy.

I don't know if this is a good thing or not. On the one hand, he hasn't said anything that's been published on the front page of any newspapers in his career. However, it does make one wonder how someone could rise high enough to get a Supreme Court nod without ever having made any ripples in the water.

I'm also a little concerned about his past, especially sicne we know so little about him. I do know that he has only been a judge for two years. That seems like hardly enough experience to be a Supreme Court Justice. Furthermore, he was nominated in 2001 to the Federal Appeals Court, but was rejected outright. Then in 2003 he gets in with a voice vote. That doesn't make sense. How can he be unacceptable in 2001 and then get a free pass in 2003. What changed?

There's also the concern about his stance on particular issues, like abortion. Perosnally, I don't think he's extreme enough to try to overturn Roe v. Wade. What I'm more concerned with is his constructionist approach toward private business practices. He has basically argued that business should not be regulated by environmental standards whatsoever.

Can you even imagine what this country would look like if busineses could function without environmental regulation?

Anyway, as I think about it, he's probably okay. I knew I wasn't going to get anyone I'd like, but at least it's not someone I hate. The senate needs to grill him thoroughly just to make sure he won't try to overturn Roe v. Wade or overturn interpretive readings of the constitution already in place. I still don't know enough to make a vote yet, but I do know that bush could have done much, much worse.

If you say Karl Rove's name three times...

...he manifests out of a screen of smoke and steals your soul.

We've known for a long time that he is actively trying to harm our government and our people, and now we finally have the proof.

Last week, it was reported in Newsweek that Karl Rove was the man that responsible for revealing undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.

The theory is that he did it as a way of getitng back at Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was sent at the behest of the CIA to investigate the administration's claims that Iraq had tried to acquire Uranium from Africa. Wilson wrote a column saying that there was absolutely no evidence to support that claim, which was one of the major reasons cited for invading Iraq.

A few days later, Columnist and Douchebag of Liberty Robert Novak (thank you Jon Stewart) revealed that Wislon's wife, Valerie Plame, was actually an undercover CIA agent responsible for investigating WMD proliferation.

THIS IS A FEDERAL CRIME

Exposing undercover agents not only puts their lives in danger, but also anyone who associated with them or confided in them, not to ention destroying years of contact and information gathering.

So now, two years and a couple of jailed reporters later, the leak can finally be traced back to the lord of the underworld, Karl Rove. Everyone suspected it from day one, but now they can prove it.

What a bastard.

He's so mad about the disproving of the uranium claim that he would put dozens of peoples lives in danger and ruin years of work for his petty revenge? Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, they did start a war over petty revenge after all.

Well, petty revenge and oil, of course.

The beginning of the end...

Well here it is.

I did my absolute best to resist starting a political blog, the state of our country combined with the incessant requests from others for me to do it, not to mention my own narcissism, I've broken down and did it.