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....
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.
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.
He's always been that way.
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.
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!
This program will kill the country. Medicare is too, too, too much money.
I am disappointed in Senator Dole.
This morning WABC radio played a shrill woman bitterly complaining about being FORCED into this program. She went on to say there are no words to describe how angry she is.
No one is FORCED to participate.
I am on Medicare. I did not sign up nor do I intend to sign up. I have no prescription plan from any source.
Low income people will benefit, and most of the chain pharmacies have people on staff to help you decide which plan is best.
If the greedy geezers can get themselves down to their condos in Florida they can take the time to get informed.
If the democrats don't like it and true conservatives don't like it, why don't we scrap it and make everyone happy?
"At this stage of his career, it's sad to see Dole still flacking for big government."
There.
Fixed.
We were told in 1996 by the party establishment that it was Bob Dole's "turn" to be the presidential nominee. He got the nomination, though he was a weak candidate who stood little chance against Clinton. (I believe that it was Newt Gingrich who had earlier called Dole the "bagman" for the welfare state, during Newt's backbench bombthrowing days.)
In 2000 the party establishment wanted early on to push aside many of the GOP candidates so as to coronate George Bush, who barely eked out a narrow win over AlGore, and then opened the border gates even wider than Clinton and presided over more domestic spending than LBJ.
If the party insiders tell us who we must get behind in 2008, I recommend we put our hands over our billfolds and back out of the room carefully.