"...never before has the bottom line swung by $286 billion in a single year." Yessiree bob, we need more members of the President's party in Congress, so his agenda can move forward without those pesky obstructionist Democrats. And what an agenda it is: judges, guns, and permanent tax cuts. But that's all a good thing, isn't it? Well, suppose Congress was all-Republican; I suspect this problem with falling Medicare fees to doctors would go unrepaired (tax cuts for the highest-income folks are more important than caring for Medicare users, judging from past rhetoric by the administration).
Ok, this one's not my diatribe; it comes from someone at the SF Chronicle who's obviously infuriated with what he deems inappropriate usage of governmental web sites. He seems to be particularly exercised about the SF County Board of Supes, and a recent edict from someone in the Governor's office to have a photo of Gray Davis on every single page of state agency sites. I can see why this would appear to be a tad self-serving.
Speaking of self-serving, I have no reason to believe that my local clinic is in league with the company that runs its parking structure, but when the pharmacy loses my prescription within an hour of my calling to find out if it's ready, meaning that they have to re-do the thing, all the while wasting 25 minutes of the 1/2 hour parking grace period, thus causing me to pay $3.00, what should I think?
Here's a link to Senator Wellstone's hometown newspaper; as you can imagine, the entire front page is devoted to the plane crash and Wellstone's career. I admired the man as one who almost singlehandedly reminded his colleagues that principle was important, something they'd do well to remember but probably won't.
Posted by Linkmeister at October 25, 2002 03:35 PMYa know what is pretty pathetic?
The fact that I didn't even know much about this man (whom I would have really admired)until he died...