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

To: pompsander who wrote (754176)	11/13/2006 4:32:45 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

[The strongest support, 92 percent, was for lowering drug prices for retirees on Medicare by allowing the government to negotiate directly with drug companies. Some three-quarters of respondents said it should be a top priority, according to Newsweek.] "Of all the no-brainers, this is the biggest of all!" I see from the news today that administration folks are making veto threats over this. (I can't see that ACTUALLY happening though. Bush handing the Dems a winning campaign issue for the '08 election --- so close to the '06 election setbacks. His Republicans in Congress would probably roast him alive. More likely the veto threat is - like many of his others - merely posturing, and he will try to 'slow-walk' the issue, or mold the actual language to something he can claim is a 'win-win'.) Public support seems far too high to bottle this one up forever though.