Frist -- Devoid of Ethics

So, not only is he a medical hack (horribly misdiagnosing Terri Shiavo based on a video), but he's a greedy bastard completely devoid of any ethical standards.

Frist sold hospital shares before drop

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, sold all his stock in his family's hospital corporation about two weeks before it issued a disappointing earnings report and the price fell nearly 15 percent.

Frist, a surgeon first elected to the Senate in 1994, had been criticized for maintaining the holdings while dealing with legislation affecting the medical industry and managed care. Call (Frist spokeswoman) said the Senate Ethics Committee has found nothing wrong with Frist's holdings in the company in a blind trust.

"To avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest Senator Frist went beyond what ethics requires and sold the stock," Call said. Asked why he had never done so before, she said, "I don't know that he's been worried about it in the past."

Good for him for doing the right thing and divulging himself of his shares in a clear conflict of interest...11 years after the fact and right before the stock tanked.

Of course Frist wasn't worried about holding the stock or the conflict it created in the past! That's because the stock was doing fine. The stock price peaks and then he suddenly has an attack of conscience before the stock tanks? Yeah. Right. And Terri Schiavo was responsive to visual cues.