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I don't know that the prescription plan is as enormous as the Great Society. Could even be a step towards privatization of medicare. How about the Democrats currently running for President? I think most (if not all of them) are for a "onepayer" 100% government provided healthcare system. Which one of these guys do you prefer? And which one of these Democrats do you trust with appointing the next crop of Supreme Court Justices?

I don't know that the prescription plan is as enormous as the Great Society. Could even be a step towards privatization of medicare.

Bush is asking for $300 billion for ten years. The Democrats are offering $1 trillion. If this scam passes, the price of admission will be somewhere in that range. Then...
The baby boomers retire and qualify for the freebie plan. Each year thereafter will see a larger constiuency for the drug handout. How will it possibly be privatized?
The path to privatizing unearned subsidies ("entitlements") requires a weaning of the populace from government dependency, not a further encouragement of it. Yet Bush is promoting more dependency, hoping that the beneficiaries will be grateful to the GOP. How does this lead to a smaller and less expensive government? Who's going to pay for it?
Further, how does anyone really think that once seniors come to expect this latest freebie, that the Democrats won't outbid the GOP for their votes, as they have for decades?

How about the Democrats currently running for President? I think most (if not all of them) are for a "onepayer" 100% government provided healthcare system. Which one of these guys do you prefer? And which one of these Democrats do you trust with appointing the next crop of Supreme Court Justices?

Can't think of a one, but I can't see as that's any reason to ignore President Bush's largesse with our money.
Stopping Democrats' big government plans is easy: vote against them.
The second task is trickier: how do we stop the big government plans of Republicans like President Bush?