A Tale Of Two Agendas

Steve Soto at The Left Coaster:

While Bill Frist introduced an agenda today that called for making Bush’s tax cuts permanent, the Democrats called for fiscal accountability.

While Bill Frist’s president asked for another $80 billion for Iraq, catching his own party by surprise, he and his administration say that Medicaid and Medicare will have to be cut because there isn’t enough money. Yet the Democrats called for improving the health care system for all today. Have the Republicans done anything in recent months to fix the problems created by the corporate welfare Medicare drug bill and the coverage gaps it foists upon seniors? No, but the Democrats called for fixing that today.

The only concern Republicans showed today for the plight of the uninsured was to seek to take away the rights of patients to sue in state courts, and to push once again for health savings accounts that do nothing for those at the bottom of the income scale. Meanwhile, Democrats called for extending coverage to more children, mothers, and mothers-to-be.
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Did the Republicans make education a major priority today with any detailed plans? No, but they will push for a constitutional ban on gay marriage.

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