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Ending an investigation that clouded the tenure of former Senate majority leader Bill Frist, federal prosecutors have decided not to file insider-trading charges against the Tennessee Republican for his sales of stock in a family-owned chain of hospitals.
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Although the probes are over, it is unclear whether they will take a long-term toll. Frist suffered for his role in the political furor over Terri Schiavo, a comatose Florida woman who died in 2005 after her feeding tube was removed, when he gave a medical opinion, based on videotapes of her, that she had not suffered irreversible brain damage. He also lost ground when Democrats seized control of Congress in January in what was seen as a rebuke to Republican leadership.
The former lawmaker has been back in the news of late. Frist recently issued statements of support for former senator Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.), his friend who has been mulling a bid for the White House in 2008. Frist also garnered news coverage in February when he spent a month in the Darfur region of Sudan on a medical mission, which was similar to trips the surgeon-turned-senator took to Africa throughout his tenure in Washington.
Frist Not Charged as Investigators Close Probe of His Hospital Stock Sales
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I am not a fan of this guy, an opinion I garnered many decades ago, in the presence of his father, the cussingist Admiral anyone has heard, yea even when son was newly a prisoner of the bad guys. But I do like this...
Earlier in the same year, as bloodshed and chaos grew in Iraq, the Republican Party showed its respect for the sanctity of human life by trying to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who had been in a vegetative state for fifteen years following cardiac arrest. McCain backed Republicans’ attempt to force Schiavo’s husband to keep his wife on life support, quality of life and multiple court decisions be damned. When the public saw through the publicity stunt, the GOP brought their ace in in a pinch to do damage control. Of the breathtakingly crass sketch, McCain told ABC with grandfatherly earnestness: “I think that the motivation of my colleagues is that we want to give this young woman’s family a chance to care for her as long as she lives.”
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He certainly suffered from media lies like this one. Yoo hoo, Washington Post -- Terri was not comatose.