LA Times: Frist Senate Leadership Seen as Entirely Self-Serving

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WASHINGTON — As he prepares to leave the Senate and position himself for a presidential bid, Bill Frist faces mounting criticism that he has proved an ineffectual majority leader whose legislative agenda increasingly is dictated by his White House ambitions.

Complaints about the patrician Tennessean by fellow Republicans intensified this week, sparked by his decision to force Senate debate on illegal immigration. Some GOP lawmakers say his move spotlighted a squabble within the party over a hot-button issue in an election year.

"We should have had a much more ambitious process of trying to build consensus and bringing people and different views together before we engaged in debate on the Senate floor," Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) told reporters.But grumbling about the majority leader and the decisions he has made were evident before the flap over immigration.

Even God Almighty knows that the Senate only exists to serve Bill Frist's personal president-seeking agenda.

And who can possibly forget his WRONG diagnosis of Terri Schiavo made by a doctored (cough) videotape?