{"id":8092,"date":"2006-08-01T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8092.html"},"modified":"2006-08-01T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T19:00:46","slug":"what-is-bill-frist-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/what-is-bill-frist-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Bill Frist talking about?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it me, or is Senate Majority Leader [tag]Bill Frist[\/tag] getting less coherent<\/a> as time goes on?<\/p>\n

“I’d be hard-pressed to say we’re not addressing the issues that mean something to the [tag]average[\/tag] hard-working [tag]taxpayer[\/tag] out there today.” \u2013 Majority Leader Bill Frist, Senate Floor, 8\/1\/06<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can appreciate the fact that he’s probably feeling a little defensive right now, but any reasonable look at recent events suggests the Senate has done anything but<\/i> work on issues relating to the “average hard-working taxpayer.”<\/p>\n

What’s been on the congressional calendar since June? We’ve seen the anti-gay amendment<\/a>, the flag amendment<\/a>, the more-tax-cut-for-millionaires bill<\/a>, a multi-pronged approach to undermine the separation of church and state<\/a>, and the obligatory anti-abortion bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now the Senate is taking up a minimum-wage proposal — but only if Dems go along with yet another tax cut<\/a> for the wealthiest of the wealthy.<\/p>\n

The Senate Majority Project cited<\/a> a poll, from just last week, listing the top legislative priorities for the public. They were: [tag]Iraq[\/tag], [tag]economy[\/tag]\/[tag]jobs[\/tag], [tag]immigration[\/tag], and [tag]health care[\/tag].<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans are, instead, sticking with the culture war and tax breaks for the idle rich. At this point, the “average hard-working taxpayers” are the furthest thing from Republicans’ minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it me, or is Senate Majority Leader [tag]Bill Frist[\/tag] getting less coherent as time goes on? “I’d be hard-pressed to say we’re not addressing the issues that mean something to the [tag]average[\/tag] hard-working [tag]taxpayer[\/tag] out there today.” \u2013 Majority Leader Bill Frist, Senate Floor, 8\/1\/06 I can appreciate the fact that he’s probably feeling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}