Frist to cut out the hearts of the sentient

Frist said that remaining in the Senate would make a presidential run impossible. Frist plans to step down when his second term ends this year.

"I will have to really work hard on it," Frist said. "As a surgeon, I did my best work when people were sound asleep, cutting out their hearts, putting new hearts in.

"And now what I need to do, everybody says, is do your best work and not put people to sleep. That's what I'll work on."

So, presumably cutting out the hearts of the fully conscious will be a central theme of the cat killer's presidential campaign.