WHY HAVEN'T I HEARD ABOUT THIS SHIT???

Also from NY Times:

"Richard Foster, one of the government's foremost Medicare experts, says he was ordered not to provide requested information to Congress last fall when doubts were being raised about the drug benefit's cost. The administration denies this, but a ranking former official has confirmed Mr. Foster's story. As the bill was being considered, Mr. Foster privately cautioned that its cost could amount to as much as $600 billion, while the White House publicly stuck to the Congressional Budget Office figure of $400 billion over 10 years. The administration eventually conceded a cost of $534 billion, but only after the bill was safely signed into law.

Now it is one thing to make pro-presidential policy videos...but it is quite another when several news stations actually played this *advert* during their regular news broadcast as though it were real news. Seriously. How scary is this? The amount of mis-information and quasi-truths floating around this nation needs to be brought to the attention of everyone who cares about this country. A few days before the protests (more on those later) i remember hearing newscasters predicting the turnout to be relatively small and to consist of a few fringe groups. Bullshit!

my friend emailed me this about bush the other day:
"Arggg. How did he get to be president? You'd think we'd have some kind of system for weeding out this type of person. Maybe a system where the people vote for a leader, and then the votes are counted, and the person with the most votes gets to be president. Someday we should try that."