Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

I’m
really enjoying the two faced Bush image that’s showing up everywhere (link,
link, link,
link) The concept
really does captures our dear leader’s essence.

In keeping with the theme I thought I would throw out a well known example.
Bush proposes, congress passes and he signs the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit.
Now this is a play for the retiree vote in 2004 and is the largest new government
entitlement since the Great Society, which is sure to piss off the deficit hawk
part of his base. Hmm. I wonder if he made any promises to them in 2000.

Anyway, the package includes a truly remarkable restriction keeping the government
from using its massive buying power to negotiate for lower prices from the drug
companies, artificially inflating its cost. Well that can’t make Andrew Sulivan
or his deficit hawk ilk happy. No sir. Not one bit. Now of course this remarkable
bit of incompetence is little more than a sweet sweet love song to the pharmaceuticals
industry (big big business).

Now big business craves stability and low taxes almost as much as it craves
sweet sweet Bush lovin’ and it’s sad to say government insolvency does nothing
for the long term prospects of either stability or low taxes. OOPS he did it
again. Hey Smith Klein Beecham, better stow away those government checks for
that rainy day. Those clouds sure do look dark.

So it looks like this was just some piss poor, irresponsible policy that helps
nobody much other that dear old Bush. Retirees do turn out at the polls in remarkable
numbers after all. Sadly, they really seem to have picked up on what a steaming
sack of shit they were handed. Seems like at least a few of those faces wound
up getting a little randy and screwing Bush. To bad we all got screwed in the
process..

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