POLITICAL VACCINE: Congress, Bush oblivious to fiscal illness being inflicted
Hardly a week goes by that the House, with the encouragement of President Bush, does not approve another tax cut or extend an existing one, courting fiscal calamity should the Senate follow suit.
Looking ahead to the 2004 election, Bush wants Congress to pass a costly and complicated prescription drug benefit for seniors, and to do so this summer....
Given the ruinous cost and poor design of the proposed prescription drug plans, politicians clearly are less concerned with physical or fiscal health than with inoculating themselves against electoral defeat.
Can anyone here put together a Medicare bill that isn't a scam designed solely to ensure a politician's re-election? It seems this bill is little more than smoke and mirrors desgined to fool as many seniors as possible into thinking that Congress is actually working with their best interests in mind. Those of us who had hoped that Congress and the White House would rise above this sort of cynical gamsemanship are feeling horribly naive right about now.
Now before anyone begins to castigate me for my out-of-touch, bleeding-heart Liberal perspective, I would point out that the paragraph quoted at the top of this post is from an editorial in this morning's Houston Chronicle. The Chronk's editorial board is about as far-Right as you can be without being Tom DeLay.
How about doing the job you were elected (and took and oath) to do, y'all?
