Bush Urges Elderly to Explore Drug Plan

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 03/14/06 | Jennifer Loven

[Reagan Man]

Look pal, I've been reading your posts for while. You seem like a nice guy, but you're prone to long winded diatribes that don't answer the questions of the debate. I'm hear to discuss political conservatism, in the context of a conservative policy agenda for America. That is what Free Republic is all about and what I'm all about. One more time. The new Prescription Drug Program is anathema to the conservative agenda. It is a liberal socialist, welfare entitlement program and it should not exist. From your ongoing defense of the PDP, I can only conclude you support it. That is not the conservative position. Nuff said.

[CharlesWayneCT]

From your ongoing defense of the PDP

I'd like to agree with you, except that I have not been defending the drug plan, much less mounting an ongoing defense of the plan.

I simply noted a Fox report that a poll found most people eligible for the program had a favorable opinion of it, and that my father-in-law said it saved him money.

When my name was put in a list of pings where someone argued against the program, I did not respond. When you responded to that post in a manner that might lead some to think that, because my name was in the list of pings, that I was a supporter of the plan, or had even posted any arguments for the plan, I simply responded to correct the possibly misleading inference.

Since then you have seemingly been arguing with that refutation, suggesting that if I have anything good to say about the program, I must be supporting it and therefore am not a conservative.

I believe I have sufficiently put that idea to rest, if not for you at least for anybody who has bothered to follow the last few posts.

[Pelham]

Good ideas. Which is surely why none of them have a chance.

[FBD]

sad, but true. The only thing we can always count on is bureaucratic bungling, and political posturing.