[RJCogburn]

A major example is the Bushies incredible socialistic Medicare spending bill just passed, that robs the young to pay for the olds medical bills.

While you are correct in your characterization of the Medicare bill, it was the votes of REPUBLICANS that passed it.

Your analsis of the party breakdown is not correct, IMO. While there are some loyal to Bush personally, I think most of the inhabitants of Bushbotland are people who would rationalize the actions of almost any President of their party

[Dane]

While there are some loyal to Bush personally, I think most of the inhabitants of Bushbotland are people who would rationalize the actions of almost any President of their party

And in the converse, there are people on FR who "rationalize" that any political success is verboten.

If a bill passed is not 100% idelogically correct it is automatically bad, even though that bill gives Ted and Hillary fits which don't resonate in the general electorate.

[Moonman62]

While you are correct in your characterization of the Medicare bill, it was the votes of REPUBLICANS that passed it.

I've read and heard about a lot arm twisting that Bush did to get enough Republicans to vote for it.