it was really more of a nearsighted trust

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has become the subject of multiple investigations over his sale of HCA stock held in a blind trust shortly before a bad earnings report sent the shares tumbling.

What should the senator do? He has a number of options available to him:

• Plead guilty immediately, do the time, and secure a new “Apprentice” show. “Kevin, I’m sorry, you did not do a good job leading your team. Kevin, ‘you’ve lost the election.’”
• Take a hard line with the press. “I did not sell stock in that company, HCA, Inc.”
• Address the perception that HCA shareholders had been abandoned in their time of need by embarking on a series of trips to those institutional holders most affected by the earnings disaster. Note that no one “can imagine an America without HCA, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries and related affiliates.”
• Play dumb. “C’mon boys, I don’t know about all this complicated financial trust stuff. It’s not like I’m a rocket scientist or anything. Okay, so I’m a brain surgeon, but I’m not a rocket scientist!”
• Find out from Joe Biden where he got the scary white teeth and smile at reporters until they go away.
• Play the race card. “You know, this wouldn’t be happening if I were a rich white guy. Well a richer, whiter guy.”

If none of this works he can always blame the whole thing on “moderate wing extremists” who are trying to foist their mainstream agenda on an unsuspecting America!

J.