The poll numbers look very solid as the Democrats and Bill ‘Cat Killer’ Frist head for a showdown over judicial nominations:
ABC News/Washington Post Poll. April 21-24, 2005. N=1,007 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3. Fieldwork by TNS.
“The Senate has confirmed 35 federal appeals court judges nominated by Bush, while Senate Democrats have blocked 10 others. Do you think the Senate Democrats are right or wrong to block these nominations?”
4/21-24/05
Right 48%
Wrong 36%
Both (vol.) 3%
Unsure 13%
“Would you support or oppose changing Senate rules to make it easier for the Republicans to confirm Bush’s judicial nominees?”
4/21-24/05
Support 26%
Oppose 66%
Unsure 8%
Polling Report
For those of you that need a refresher on why I call Bill Frist a cat killer:
A Dec. 31 letter from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked Frist to make amends by pressing for reforms that would replace old-style tests where animals are subjected to painful and sometimes deadly procedures with newer, more humane approaches. They also requested that he help fund research to find non-animal alternatives.
Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely killed cats while an ambitious medical student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. His office said it had no record on how many cats died.
UPI
But remember, he is a champion of Christians everywhere.
Cats have no souls – theocrats wouldn’t view this as a conflict of interest. Unfortunately those involved in medicine and bio-tech will for the most part have had a history in animal experimentation. Something to think about during your next physical.
Bill Frist is an exceptional case. He went to animal shelters and took cats under the pretense of giving them homes, and then killed them and cut them into pieces.
And then, 20 years later, he bragged about because he thought it made him look dedicated to his craft.
That’s different than your standard vivisection in school.
Bill Frist is an exceptional case
I’ll second that.
The technique of being proud of what you do is something they all use – makes them look strong – and voters like strong.
“So what? Everyone knows all cats are Jews.”
I see here the embryo* of a Johnny or Bob Johnson diary.
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*Don’t kill it!
I’m not much of a diarist…I only work in 2- or 3- sentence snippets.
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P.S. Never buy IAMs cat or dog food. My daughter taught me about that. They conduct very cruel experiments on cats and dogs kept 24/7 in tiny steel cages. http://www.iamscruelty.com