natedogg
06-16-2004, 02:05 AM
No it's not Iraq. I'm much more concerned about domestic policy to be honest.
Although appointing Ashcroft and passing the Patriot act are pretty far up there, I have to give Bush the blackest marks for his Medicaire bill, which most people didn't pay much attention to and has gotten little press.
This bill is an absolutely disgusting example of blatant profiteering via lobbying and congressional payouts to campaign contributors, as well as cheap pandering by Bush in an attempt to appease the liberal side of the voting bloc ( and failing anyway ) by passing disastrous egislation
that sounds good when dressed up with feel-good rhetoric.
The most shocking part of this bill is a clause that prevents the federal government from negotiating price with drug providers. That's right, they just have to pay whatever the drug provider asks. Unbelievable.
Also, Bush team lied to congress (shocker I know) about the real cost and even pressured GAO accountants to hide the true reports of the expected costs.
Medicare, like social security but in different ways, is a freakin' disaster. Unlike social security, the goal of medicare is laudable and there should be a way to do it right. This bill is a step backward, not forward. It will cost more to provide less.
To me, there are so many better reasons than Iraq to hate Bush. This is one of them.
Conservatives who think they are fiscally minded and still support Bush are completely deluded.
I prefer Kerry over Bush by only a slight margin, but this is one of the reasons why. The democrats actually opposed this ridiculous bill, which for once was the right
approach to this terribly constructed social program.
Maybe the democrats will actually wake up and fix social security too. It's funny to me that the democrats
may end up doing the right thing just to be the republican foil, and only because the republicans are trying to pass this crap to appease the liberals. Whatever works
I guess.
natedogg
Although appointing Ashcroft and passing the Patriot act are pretty far up there, I have to give Bush the blackest marks for his Medicaire bill, which most people didn't pay much attention to and has gotten little press.
This bill is an absolutely disgusting example of blatant profiteering via lobbying and congressional payouts to campaign contributors, as well as cheap pandering by Bush in an attempt to appease the liberal side of the voting bloc ( and failing anyway ) by passing disastrous egislation
that sounds good when dressed up with feel-good rhetoric.
The most shocking part of this bill is a clause that prevents the federal government from negotiating price with drug providers. That's right, they just have to pay whatever the drug provider asks. Unbelievable.
Also, Bush team lied to congress (shocker I know) about the real cost and even pressured GAO accountants to hide the true reports of the expected costs.
Medicare, like social security but in different ways, is a freakin' disaster. Unlike social security, the goal of medicare is laudable and there should be a way to do it right. This bill is a step backward, not forward. It will cost more to provide less.
To me, there are so many better reasons than Iraq to hate Bush. This is one of them.
Conservatives who think they are fiscally minded and still support Bush are completely deluded.
I prefer Kerry over Bush by only a slight margin, but this is one of the reasons why. The democrats actually opposed this ridiculous bill, which for once was the right
approach to this terribly constructed social program.
Maybe the democrats will actually wake up and fix social security too. It's funny to me that the democrats
may end up doing the right thing just to be the republican foil, and only because the republicans are trying to pass this crap to appease the liberals. Whatever works
I guess.
natedogg