December 05, 2003
The Medicare bill is a Washington-style mafia bustout
Josh Marshall of "The Hill" writes about how the Medicare bill is bad business and a power grab for the Bush administration. He makes this analogy.
Say you’re a gambler and I’m a mobster. I’ve lent you lots of money. But now you can’t cover your debt. I could pursue the matter through your kneecaps or toss you out of an office window, but instead I take a more constructive approach.
He adds.
I have no question that President Bush is trying to solidify Republican control over the federal government. And on the face of it, leaving messes that will need to be cleaned up in the not-too-distant future doesn’t seem like the best way of accomplishing that end. But perhaps, as Nick Confessore recently suggested in The Washington Monthly, the idea is to hand out so many political goodies and entrench GOP interests so deeply on K Street that GOP dominance will be incontestable when the price for all this recklessness finally has to be paid.
Here's a little more information about why the Medicare bill is bad.
Yowch. That's some pretty nasty stuff.
Tell you what, guys. Come over here. The healthcare's free and the beer's great. I'll put one on ice for you.
Something else I wish we didn't have to re-visit two years later.
At least you don't hear as many politicos going on about how we have "the greatest healthcare system in the world."
*grumbles*
It's funny how you can tell the Sullivan posts by the titles alone.
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