Hypocrite of the Day

Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader had the following to say before the November election:

• "I find it opportunistic to use the death of someone like Christopher Reeve -- I think it is shameful -- in order to mislead the American people," Frist said. "We should be offering people hope, but neither physicians, scientists, public servants or trial lawyers like John Edwards should be offering hype.
  
  "It is cruel to people who have disabilities and chronic diseases, and, on top of that, it's dishonest. It's giving false hope to people, and I can tell you as a physician who's treated scores of thousands of patients that you don't give them false hope."

Hmm ... public servants giving false hope to someone with a chronic disease. Sounds familiar. What a different tune he sings before and after the election. Now that they are in power, they will do anything to keep it.

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely" -- An observation that a person’s sense of morality lessens as his or her power increases. The statement was made by Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Very fitting.