Bills in Congress Doctored to Finance Bush Campaign

News and Opinion for Democrats Against Bush - Part I b

Bills in Congress Doctored to Finance Bush Campaign

' Between this Medicare gift and an even worse energy bill -- what one Democratic wag labeled the "No Lobbyist Left Behind" Act -- the season of using staggering amounts of our tax dollars for craven political catering to big donors has now begun. The widespread looting going on in Iraq -- and I mean Bechtel and Halliburton and friends, not poor teenage Iraqi thugs -- has officially come home. '

WorkingForChange.com 11.26.03
Money for nothing New bill reforming Medicare raises Big Pharma's profits at cost of seniors' lives Geov Parrish *To see the complete article, click on--* http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=16064 *Excerpt--*

Tis the season to be greedy.

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One of the most maddening aspects ofAmerican media during any political campaign season is our tendency to cover even the most serious legislative or societal news through the lens of how it might affect candidates' election chances. This so-called "horse race" reporting usually comes at the expense of what actually happened, and how it will affect people. It's easier and "sexier" -- although not particularly relevant -- to guess what might happen at the ballot box.

Never has this syndrome been on fuller display than in the coverage of yesterday's presidential signing of a bill extending prescription drug coverage -- sort of -- to Medicare-eligible seniors and the disabled. The bill stinks to high heaven, but all we could hear about was whether its passage would help George Bush in 2004. ...

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