{"id":1988,"date":"2004-06-23T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T15:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1988.html"},"modified":"2004-06-23T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T15:34:40","slug":"frist-to-leave-the-senate-in-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/frist-to-leave-the-senate-in-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Frist to leave the Senate in 2006?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had always believed rumors that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) would use his high-profile leadership position to launch a bid for president in 2008. But in an interview late last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/0621\/p20s04-usmb.html\">with the Christian Science Monitor<\/a>, Frist sounded like a man planning to wrap up his career in politics, instead of planning to move to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he&#8217;s planning a White House campaign, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/under_dome\/062204.aspx\">Frist sounded like<\/a> he&#8217;ll be leaving politics altogether in 2006.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am a heart- and lung-transplant surgeon. I spent 20 years doing that, and that&#8217;s my life. &#8230; My life is medicine, and \u2026 that&#8217;s where my heart is, that&#8217;s where my family&#8217;s been, that&#8217;s what I do, moving living tissue around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I&#8217;m not making any announcements what I&#8217;m going to do in terms of election or reelection \u2026 but my intention has always been, and it hasn&#8217;t changed, to serve 12 years in the United States Senate and then return to medicine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somewhere in DC right now, Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/ford\/\">Harold Ford Jr.<\/a> (D-Tenn.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropulse.com\/dir_zine\/dir_2004\/1423\/t_cover.html\">is smiling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had always believed rumors that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) would use his high-profile leadership position to launch a bid for president in 2008. But in an interview late last week with the Christian Science Monitor, Frist sounded like a man planning to wrap up his career in politics, instead of planning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}