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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DizzyG who wrote (103254)	7/16/2007 8:46:44 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 173976

I already posted that, for the unintended comedy!

To: DizzyG who wrote (103254)	7/16/2007 10:35:33 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 173976

aside from the hilarity of this article there is a lot thats wrong. Bush has also (on the whole) resisted domestic protectionist pressures (remember the Democratic presidential candidates in 2004 complaining about outsourcing?), thereby helping sustain global economic growth. The medicare drug program effectively doubles our unfunded entitlements with protectionism. In fact, the taxpayers that have to pay for this boondoggle can't even shop around for the best price within our borders, something mere protectionism would allow. The year 2003 also featured a close congressional vote on Bush's other major first-term initiative, the Medicare prescription drug benefit. Liberals denounced it as doing nothing for the elderly; conservatives worried that it would bust the budget. Experts of all stripes foresaw great challenges in its implementation. In fact, it has all gone surprisingly smoothly, providing broad and welcome coverage for seniors and coming in under projected costs. The medicare drug program was budgeted at $400 billion, way too high. Then it was increased (after it passed) to $539 billion and now the estimates are as high as 1.2 TRILLION. I don't know what Kristol is thinking supporting this boondoggle, and you can be sure that if a DEMOCRAT pushed BS like this through they wouldn't have heard the end of it. On fiscal issues, BUSH SUCKS.