I used to believe that one of Bush's primary problems was that he was governor in a state with an absurdly weak governorship. In Texas, the executive is only the fifth most powerful position, and so Bush's disengagement with public policy made sense. He'd never needed to be engaged. I hoped Giuliani would actually be better, as his time in New York required real substantive involvement with policy analysis. And yet it's the same old crap. Here's Rudy's new radio ad on health care:
Rudy's wandering around with the old prostate care canard. It's -- no pun intended -- crap. England and America have vritually the same mortality rates from prostate cancer. In England (as of 1997), 28 males of every 100,000 died from prostate cancer. In America, then number was 26. The difference comes in "incidence" -- there are many more diagnoses of prostate cancer in America, as we have an aggressive screening process:
