To bamboozle or palooza. That is the question, or something like that from TPM Reader BR …
Actually, the Bamboozlepalooza tour is worse this time and even more insulting. With Social Security, Bush was pushing his proposed change in basic program of Social Security. With Medicare Part D, the Administration and its minions are fanning out on a PR CAMPAIGN regarding a program that is currently being implemented and causing serious problems and raising a number of issues. What they SHOULD be doing, is staying in DC and fixing the problems, figuring out a way to better inform beneficiaries and the medical community, and appeasing the States who have been left holding the bag. The administration will not admit the program has serious flaws (pointed out not only in the media, but internal HHS studies as well)–shades of Iraq! Maybe if we put Condi in charge of rebuilding Part D…
Pretty much.
