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

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (658602)	11/7/2004 7:33:45 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It's interesting that you spend so much time here and yet claim ignorance of politics. What isn't useless is to understand the DC contradiction that the cabinet departments are expected to carry out policies that are consistent with the President's perspectives, beliefs and intentions and yet keep the Pres insulated from anything that looks sleazy. If this were not true, Paul Allen would not have been fired and departments like the FDA would not have appointed directors, working instead in the national interest in a non-partisan way. Hah! Pipe dream. What seems to slip your attention and for which there is no rational argument is why Bush opposes reducing medicare costs by allowing the federal govt to negotiate group discounts for perfectly safe drugs made right here. I don't know what other possible explanation there can be than a reluctance to cut into corp profit. This has nothing to do with Bush's integrity. But it is a moral choice in the sense that he is charged with acting in the national interest. In that respect, he has been entirely consistent in choosing private over national interest--unless he believes that private profit IS the national interest. In that's true, then approximately half the nation disagrees.