Best line of the day, so far

“Mr. Leader,” one stunned journalist observed, “I don’t remember you being so exercised over something before.”

“You’ve never seen me in heart surgery,” the senator, a transplant specialist, replied.

Dr. Frist’s patients — not to mention the Tennessee medical licensing board — may be surprised to learn that he had operating-room rage.

Dana Milbank describing Senator/Doctor Frist’s reaction to the Senate Rule 21 session Tuesday