{"id":2678,"date":"2002-12-19T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2002-12-19T23:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/12\/the-frist-scenario\/"},"modified":"2002-12-19T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2002-12-19T23:45:22","slug":"the-frist-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/19\/the-frist-scenario\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frist Scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis <a title=\"Reuters | Latest Financial News \/ Full News Coverage\" href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&#038;storyID=1939238\">little story<\/a> makes the Frist Scenario seem much more likely:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee is exploring a possible bid to replace Trent Lott as their chamber&#8217;s incoming majority leader and Assistant Republican Leader Don Nickles of Oklahoma will likely back Frist, sources said on Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frist has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bennett.com\/archives\/week_2002_12_08.html#001214\">long been our man<\/a>, but we want Lott to have a nice, soft landing when it happens.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little story makes the Frist Scenario seem much more likely: WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee is exploring a possible bid to replace Trent Lott as their chamber&#8217;s incoming majority leader and Assistant Republican Leader Don Nickles of Oklahoma will likely back Frist, sources said on Thursday. Frist has long been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/19\/the-frist-scenario\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Frist Scenario&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Hc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}