Joke Of The Day

First it was rumored to be Tony Blair, now comes this:

The Wall Street Journal reports today on a shortlist of contenders for the job; topping that list is former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a loyal administration ally who retired from the Senate last year amid speculation that he would run for president, which he declined to do after his political fortunes fell with those of the administration.

Frist doesn't have much of a financial background; he was a respected heart surgeon before coming to the Senate. But while there, politics sometimes clouded even his medical judgment. During the controversy over Terri Schiavo, Frist reviewed a tape of Schiavo and said her doctors were wrong, that she was not in a persistent vegetative state. An autopsy after Schiavo's death showed that it was Frist who was wrong.

Nothing surprises me anymore.

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