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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (551495)	3/13/2004 4:43:12 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Change the subject all you want. The fact is Hastert doesn't think the administration is straight. And when you're done with that, see how the administration lied about the cost of their medicare bill to trick the Republicans into voting for it: miami.com The nation's top Medicare analyst confirmed Friday that his former boss, Thomas Scully, ordered him to withhold his estimates because they exceeded what Congress seemed willing to accept by more than $100 billion. Richard Foster, the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Friday night that he received a handwritten note from Scully, then the centers' administrator, in early June ordering him to ignore information requests from members of Congress who were drafting the drug bill. Kerry's right, these guys are crooked. Just ask Denny Hastert: Q: Sir, what did you mean by that last comment: That was with the President; I don't deal with his people anymore? Hastert: Well, we weren't getting straight numbers from his people, and they changed their mind in the middle of the process. So we are going to do what we feel we need to do. Q: Just on this issue or on -- Hastert: On this issue. Q: Or in general? Hastert: On this issue. Q: Sir -- Q: What kind of numbers were you getting from them? Hastert: Different numbers. Q: Different from? Hastert: Where they added up. Steve Dietrich