[FrankR]

"...Insure them from things they don't even own. GOP is now officially the cradle(No Child Left Behind) to grave(prescription drugs) party."

You have a point, but on the other hand, all we have heard from the rATS in recent years is how "the GOP is trying to starve seniors, or take away their SS and medicare.".

Now, in this greedy society that we now live in, it's either play hardball and give the seniors nothing at all. If the Pubbies don't do it, the rATS will.

Let the rATS get in there and institute hillary's "socialized medicine"...and the cost of that will make what Dubya has spent, pale in comparison. Not to mention giving the rATS total control over a major portion of the economy and socialized medicine almost always results in lousy healthcare.

So it seems to be the less of two evils, especially when confronted with the enormous, aging, baby boomer population. The President is making good on his campaign promise to overhaul medicare; it will probably be done in stages and this is stage 1. Prescription drugs ARE out of sight, and something needs to be done.

It seems that some in this thread are just jumping on the "bash-Bush" bandwagon. To the stealthrATS (RINO's) Bush can't do anything right anyway.

[FirstPrinciple]

You mean the campaign promise that said he won't spend federal money for fetal stem-cell research or sign CFR. In fact, I can recall that he said it will be signed over his dead body.