Recommended Reading

Remember when it was extravagant (or at least, barely acceptable) for some folks that the Bush prescription drug bill was going to cost $400 billion? How it is that few of those people are upset at current, undenied reports that it will be more in the neighborhood of $1.2 trillion? Here's one of those reports.

I understand that Republicans don't like to criticize Republicans and that Democrats do but don't know how to do it with any meaning. But you'd think we could all link arms and muster a little effective outrage any time any projection by any arm of government was this far from the mark.