Bill Frist, the candidate that cares

After spending the first part of the week warning Democrats that he'd change Senate rules eliminating the filibuster for judicial confirmation, then lying about having never used the filibuster himself while in the Senate (a claim obliterated by The Center for American Progress), Majority Leader Bill Frist is touring the affected tsunami region in Sri Lanka, looking for a good spot to get a 2008 Presidential campaign photo op:

Just before his helicopter lifted off, Frist and aides took snapshots of each other near a pile of tsunami debris.

"Get some devastation in the back," Frist told a photographer.

Yeah, could you prop up a couple bodies behind me so I look all compassionate and stuff?

I can't wait to see the picture as part of the Iowa or New Hanpshire fundraising letters. Hope they got a lotta devastation in there

[UPDATE] Here's another thing I never knew about Frist '08:

While in medical school, Frist fraudulently adopted cats from animal shelters, then experimented on and killed them. Later, in his book "Transplant," he called this behavior "a heinous and dishonest thing to do."