Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
For some reason, no example of right-wing "policy-making" gets my blood boiling more than the Medicare bill. So with a good bit of schadenfreude I read this NYT front-pager detailing the crapulent execution behind the Medicare prescription drug "benefit". Last year's USA Today poll found a solid majority of senior citizens simply don't understand it, and most won't sign up (which may help deficit projections, something I'm sure the Bush administration will tout). You reallly can't buy this kind of coverage; conversations about this colossal foul-up are taking place in Senior Centers, on golf courses, at bingo halls, and other places below the media radar. But the 2003 Medicare bill was a bad, bad bill that will have bad, bad consequences for anyone who's responsible for it; especially during the midterms, where the electorate skews significantly older.
I'll ask again, if you don't trust the government, why would you want to run the government?
