Bipartisanship for the Bush Administration STILL means what it meant post-9/11

ck4829

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Mon Nov-13-06 07:46 AM
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Bipartisanship for the Bush Administration STILL means what it meant post-9/11

Where it was "We will be bipartisan, which means Democrats will vote how WE want them to vote."

"The Bush administration said on Sunday that it would strenuously oppose one of the Democrats� top priorities for the new Congress: legislation authorizing the government to negotiate with drug companies to secure lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries.

In an interview, Michael O. Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services, said he saw no prospect of compromise on the issue."

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Mon Nov-13-06 07:50 AM
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1. all ready then. exactly why is negotiation a bad thing?

I read Leavitt's explanation and I get a pain in my head.

As Barney Frank explained it to an audience last week, it makes no sense. Medicaid allows the government to negotiate drug prices. So a person on Medicaid who moves over to Medicare, and takes the same drug, in the same dosage, now pays more for it b/c the government cannot negotiate prices?

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Warren Stupidity

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Mon Nov-13-06 07:52 AM
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2. Getcha one way bipartisanship right here.

Of course they meant Democrats should do what they are told. No sooner had they uttered all those work together play nice words then they were renominating Bolton, pushing domestic wiretapping, and announcing that they were going to oppose core Democratic policy initiatives.

Let them obstruct in the Senate and veto at the White House. The people are fed up with their bullshit and this will not sit well with them at all.

If we have to wait two years to completely clean house and start getting things done, so be it.

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