Bill Frist, a hypocrite? I'm SHOCKED, I tell ya!

Where is the outrage? Think of the children!

Sen. Bill Frist (R-Quack) has decided, based on watching a video, that Terri Schiavo is just about ready to get up and join the company of Riverdance, then win the National Spelling Bee, and that evil liberals are trying to kill her.

Funny how DOCTOR Frist wasn't as hopeful when it came to the case of someone who was incapacitated, but still had a cerebral cortex. This tidbit comes to us courtesy of DC Inside Scoop.

Bill Frist now:

"Remember, Terri is alive. She is not in a coma," Frist said Sunday. "Although there are a range of opinions, neurologists who have examined her insist today that she is not in a persistent vegetative state. She breathes on her own - like you and me. She is not on a respirator. She is not on life support of any type. She does not have a terminal condition." [The Tennessean, 3/22/05]

Bill Frist then:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist attacked Sen. John Edwards for saying that stem cell research would enable people like Christopher Reeve to “get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”

Frist responded on a conference call with reporters arranged by the Bush-Cheney campaign: "I find it opportunistic to use the death of someone like Christopher Reeve -- I think it is shameful -- in order to mislead the American people… We should be offering people hope, but neither physicians, scientists, public servants or trial lawyers like John Edwards should be offering hype.

"It is cruel to people who have disabilities and chronic diseases, and, on top of that, it's dishonest. It's giving false hope to people, and I can tell you as a physician who's treated scores of thousands of patients that you don't give them false hope." [CNN.com, 10/12/04]

Am I implying that the pious cat-killer, DOCTOR Frist, is nothing more than another cynical politician, making a calculation to appeal to the wackiest sliver of the Jesusland base for his 2008 presidential run? Nope. I'm not implying anything. I'm screaming it to the skies.

Isn't it just possible that the kind of stem cell research that Bill Frist felt might give people like Christopher Reeve "false hope" just might eventually help people like Terri Schiavo?