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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (334588)	12/29/2002 12:23:14 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: Funny that now Frist may have to be bounced for his too-close connections with big HMO's. The NY Times' Bill Keller dropped a big hint that Senator Bill Frist is going to be skewered soon: nytimes.com Snip: "In the twilight of the Congressional session, some legislator anonymously arranged for a provision to be slipped into the Homeland Security bill protecting vaccine makers (mainly Eli Lilly) from lawsuits filed by the parents of autistic children. Hundreds of parents are pressing a claim that the mercury in a measles vaccine contributed to their children's disorder. For all I know, the suit may be baseless, but surely that's for a court to decide. This is a glaring example of legislative malfeasance. And strong evidence points to Dr. Frist as its author. He is cozy with Lilly and he drafted identical legislative language earlier. But he refuses to own up to it." Gotcha! politics at play. Just like the GHP stepped into it a second time when they replaced Newt Gingrich as House Speaker with Bob Livingston (outted by Larry Flynt as a philanderer) and had to embarrassingly move on to Denny Hastert, Bill Frist may not survive scrutiny.