Bush Tells Seniors He Won't Extend Deadine Because He Won't Extend It >>>

[Stephanie]

WHY? Because I SAID SO, that's why.

Bush rejects push to extend drug-benefit deadline

By Steve Holland 1 hour, 21 minutes ago

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At a meeting with residents of a senior citizen community in Silver Spring, just outside Washington, Bush said families of older Americans, particularly adult children, should help them sort out their Medicare options.

One woman, saying she was having trouble helping her 75-year-old mother make a choice, asked whether the deadline should be extended.

"No, and the reason why is there's got to be a fixed time for people to sign up," the president said.

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About 26 million elderly people are now enrolled but many others are shunning the program.

"They are bewildered," Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson (news, bio, voting record), a proponent of extending the deadline, said during Senate debate on the two measures.

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Not everyone was happy that Bush was at the Riderwood Village retirement community. On the drive out of the complex, Bush passed a gaggle of people happily waving. Just beyond the group sat a couple on a bench holding a sign that said, "Impeach George W. Bush."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/pl_nm/bush_medicare_dc_2

[WinkyDink]

1. PLEASE! Someone find the MATCHING CHIMP to photo #2!!

Seriously!

[MikeStl]

4. woah...

that's waaay to easy :)

[BootinUp]

6. LOL.

[Atman]

2. "Because I'M THE MOMMY! And that's all the reason you need!"

Fucking imbecile.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. What a total dickweed.

Wish somebody would've nailed him with a spitball.

[gratuitous]

5. More B-school logic

Along with "never apologize, never explain" is a slavish devotion to arbitrary deadlines. But Bush is perfectly comfortable with expanding those "fixed times" when it suits him. Like releasing the rest of the evidence for the prosecution in the Abu Ghraib torture chamber.

[bridgit]

7. it's like 'a custer decision', they're all like that, the bush family...

they are simply not raised to feel they have to say they are sorry, or reverse a single thought; that is the essence of why & when bush touts routinely, "there's not a doubt in my mind!"

it's not because he is sure of what he is saying...it is just that he has never been made to feel unsure of a single step as a member of the bfee imo, it's a deep groove, and that forms a behavioral pattern

[oscar111]

8. Deadline makes no sense at all: would a deadlne 2 buy a Ford make sense?

I am lost at sea , as to why anyone would accept the idea of a deadline for buying anything for sale.

PS is there a deadline every year in march?

I notice selllers of similar things like life insurance, have no deadlines.

Greedheads are a menace to society, and in this case, the elderly are the target.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. You Have Until Noon, To Buy That Ford

If you don't, you can never buy a Ford again. I guess that'll show ya!
The Professor

[Supersedeas]

9. Compassionate Neo-Fascism