Not something you see everyday…in his farewell to Bill Frist, Andrew Ferguson writes :

Edmund Burke, the 18th-century British philosopher, once expressed alarm at the large number of doctors elected to the French Assembly. Medical men, he said, were ill-equipped for politics, which Burke always considered an elevated profession requiring both principles and skill.
“The sides of sickbeds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators,’’ Burke wrote.
The fall of Bill Frist bears him out. The paradox of non-pol politicians is that, while they may seem more appealing than the professional kind, they aren’t nearly as good at politics, and politics, for better or worse, is what we elect politicians to do.
It turns out that politicians make the best politicians. Who would have guessed?