Well, it was only paper. After all, if he were not the most "powerful" guy in the Senate, but instead Preznit American Idiot's Bitch, then we'd be having a different discussion now, wouldn't we?
The Baltimore Sun, Spiro Agnew's hometown paper, opined that the First Lady's adventures in the cow trade "certainly don't smell right, especially considering that Jim Blair represented a giant, influential agribusiness firm in Arkansas that later received what seemed to be favors from Gov. Clinton."
IOKIYAR. After all, when you have a completely made-up scandal, pushed relentlessly by the "The Paper Of Record", well that' just different than you know, actual malfeasance recorded in the "Public Record" I guess.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has maintained for years that his stock holdings in the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain posed no conflict of interest for a policymaker deeply involved in health care matters. He even received two rulings in the 1990s from the Senate ethics committee that blessed the holding of the stock in blind trusts.
So when Frist decided in June to dump all the stock, and later cited as the reason his desire to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, eyebrows went up among ethics experts and congressional watchdogs. Why did he do it at that time?
Precisely a month later, after the stock was sold, its price tumbled 9 percent when executives in the company -- HCA Inc., which was founded by Frist's father and on whose board Frist's brother serves -- disclosed that hospital admissions of insured patients were lower than expected, depressing profits in the second quarter.
So remember, when there's no credible evidence get out the rope and horse and find a tall tree, truss up the nearest Democrat and prepare for the lyching. When there's smoke, fire resulting in a smoking ruin... Hey! Look! A white girl has gone missing in the Tropics!
Oh yeah, a stock sale that the benficiary knew nothing about, gee anyone want to give Bill Frist Martha Stewarts phone number? I'm sure she'd be happy to give him some advice on how to talk to the investigators when they come a-visitin'.
