{"id":3145,"date":"2004-12-06T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3145.html"},"modified":"2004-12-06T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T14:58:42","slug":"we-need-to-take-frist-up-on-his-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/we-need-to-take-frist-up-on-his-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to take Frist up on his offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been anxious to see how the GOP would react to the new revelations concerning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A26623-2004Dec1.html\">wildly incorrect information<\/a> federally-funded abstinence programs offer to students. Would they attack the messenger? Pretend they didn&#8217;t hear about the problems? Embrace the lies as the appropriate lessons?<\/p>\n<p>Bill Frist, at least yesterday, came close to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A37772-2004Dec5.html\">saying the right things<\/a> about this ridiculous situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday that the government should review federally funded sexual abstinence programs, under fire from Democrats who say they contain false and misleading medical information.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Asked about these findings, Frist, a doctor who often calls on his medical expertise, did not directly address the issues raised. But he said the programs should be reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course they should be reviewed,&#8221; Frist said Sunday on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; program. &#8220;That&#8217;s in part our responsibility to make sure that all of these programs are reviewed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering the source, I&#8217;ll take it. Dems should follow up immediately by determining what steps will be part of this Frist-endorsed review process. How about a couple of hearings on the Hill? Or better yet, how about a freeze on federal funding for the most egregious of these programs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been anxious to see how the GOP would react to the new revelations concerning the wildly incorrect information federally-funded abstinence programs offer to students. Would they attack the messenger? Pretend they didn&#8217;t hear about the problems? Embrace the lies as the appropriate lessons? Bill Frist, at least yesterday, came close to saying the right [&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-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","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=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}