Poster
03-22-2004, 12:23 PM
The signing of the Medicare Act this past December was a big win for the Bush Administration, so they thought. Instead, the very issue the White House had hoped to be on top of is coming back to haunt them. In fact, it is one of the strongest platforms the Democrat have this election year.
"It's something that's eating away at the credibility of the administration in an election year on a bill that he (Bush) thought was a building block for his re-election," said Stephen Hess, a political analyst for the Brookings Institution, a centrist think tank, and a former aide to President Eisenhower.
In addition, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, is examining whether HHS television ads touting the new Medicare law - with pictures of Bush prominent - constitute illegal political propaganda. GAO already has concluded that the ads contain "notable omissions and errors," but its preliminary judgment was that they are legal.
To read more go to:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/8230928.html
"It's something that's eating away at the credibility of the administration in an election year on a bill that he (Bush) thought was a building block for his re-election," said Stephen Hess, a political analyst for the Brookings Institution, a centrist think tank, and a former aide to President Eisenhower.
In addition, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, is examining whether HHS television ads touting the new Medicare law - with pictures of Bush prominent - constitute illegal political propaganda. GAO already has concluded that the ads contain "notable omissions and errors," but its preliminary judgment was that they are legal.
To read more go to:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/8230928.html