"The General Accounting Office concluded that the Department of Health and Human Services illegally spent federal money on what amounted to covert propaganda by producing videos about the Medicare changes that were made to look like news reports. Portions of the videos, which have been aired by 40 television stations around the country, do not make it clear that the announcers were paid by HHS and were not real reporters."
But will this make the news tonight? Or will the Bush campaign gauntlet drown it out with $50 million of ads peppered over the airwaves? The American people should be ashamed to have this man lead their nation. Of course, almost half will probably not discover these facts, as they watch Fox News and support Bush, and continue to be misinformed that the Bush Medicare bill is not just a giveaway to the HMOs and pharmaceutical companies.
Same bill, another crime: "Two weeks ago, the Congressional Research Service concluded that the administration potentially violated the law in a related matter, in which the Medicare program's chief actuary has said he was threatened with firing a year ago if he shared with Congress cost estimates that the Medicare legislation would be a third more expensive than the $400 billion Bush said it would cost."
Same bill, yet another crime: "The House ethics panel, meanwhile, is investigating whether Republican leaders attempted to bribe or coerce a GOP House member to vote for the bill before it passed by a few votes before dawn after the longest roll call in House history."
Oh those high morals on the right side of the isle. We are blessed by their mere presence.
Source: Washington Post
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