Posted on 11/15/2005 9:37:20 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
In a just-completed interview with Fox News' Bill Hemmer, Bob Dole hailed the new Medicare prescription drug benefit as "a great program."
It's "great" for low-income people, he explained, because they'll have a very low deductible, and "good" for others.
Of course he didn't say how 'great' the program would be for the taxpayer or for future generations saddled with paying for it.
Of course Dole isn't alone in this. The program was created with the support of the President and most GOP congressmen.
Still, at this stage of his career, it's sad to see Dole flacking for big government.
Bob, if a little socialism is 'great,' would a lot of socialism be nirvana? Was Hillary right? Do we need 'free' national health care?
By the way, I included a "Kansas" topic, but wonder, ever since making that pledge in 1996 that he would either win or return to Kansas, I wonder how much of his time Dole has spent there, compared to time spent inside the Beltway.
The only saving grace was that audio problems cut the interview short before Dole was able to heap yet more praise on big government expansion.
The Republicans don't need any help from the Democrats.
Great. Now ol Bob can have us buy his Viagra for him....
Newt called Bobby "the tax collector for the welfare state."
It's BAD for everyone....prices for drugs will grow exponentially with government interference....sheesh...some of the "greatest generation" seems to have Alzheimers..
Given his years of flacking for Viagra, and now his high-profile support for the prescription drug benefit, seems that Dole has become a real stand-up guy when it comes to promoting pharmaceuticals.
Brady Bill Bob is a prescription drug socialist to boot? Why am I not surprised.
I forgot that one, but it is certainly apt. Let's not forget that Dole is married to Elizabeth, who heads up the GOP Senate Campaign Committee. What does this in turn say about her devotion to reducing the size of government?
Dole. Yet another big-gooberment RINO.
God, save us from these azzholes.
Have any of your actually read any of those programs? My husband tried reading some of the literature my mother-in-law has been sent. Yikes...it is massive and really hard to follow. No wonder the deadline is April...you need that much time to figure it out.
About the only hopeful thing I can say about the GOP is that there's no Bob Dole Jr.
That's the only good thing about the program. It's so complicated that many people will decide not to enroll ;-)
He's always been that way.
"Bob Dole." - Bob Dole
He's on MSNBC with 'Lil Ron & Monica now - YUK
Great program???
All that viagra must have stiffened his brain.
Have any of you looked into it for a parent? The most confused bunch of mess I have ever seen. There is no way the majority of oldsters are going to make heads or tails of it.
Even the terms they use need special definition because they don't mean what you think they mean.
AND...If you have a plan and medicare says their plan is better than yours, but you don't take this "benefit", you will be penalized 1%per month for every month it took you to come to your senses and get with the program.
This is a swamp with no bottom.
I don't think of Dole as a bad guy, but for someone who's been in the game as long as he has he seems surprisingly clueless.
Geez, what a bunch of negative talk on this thread!
Unlike those Democrat morons, the Republican Party can make socialism work!
Besides, it's not socialism if we don't call it that.
/pubbybot program
So thanks to this drug program, you and I are, in essence, buying this woman's grandchildren toys! Sheesh!
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