The joke is, No Child Left Behind and Medicare Prescription are lousy ideas. Federalizing education is a terrible mistake. Moreover, I've never heard of a liberal who didn't hate it, so it made no friend there, either.
As for Medicare Prescription, I have recently retired, and I was advised not to touch it with a ten foot pole. My own private prescription plan offers more benefits for less cost.
Big government just isn't the best way to spread money around. In the end, all it supports is a big bureaucracy, with small change given out to selected clients to justify itself.
I bill for a doctor and it's caused confusion among the Medi-Medi patients and just caused confusion, didn't save them anything and there is only a small percentage of patients that didn't have a secondary with insurance coverage.