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...drug benefit to the neediest seniors - the prescription politics that have so favored Democrats in the past are suddenly getting slippery for them. The Republican- controlled House passed a drug proposal in June, but the Democratic Senate voted down four separate plans over the past two weeks. With the defeat of the final one, the legislative action is over until next year. Bring on the attack...
...drug benefit to the neediest seniors--the prescription politics that have so favored Democrats in the past are suddenly getting slippery for them. The Republican-controlled House passed a drug proposal in June, but the Democratic Senate voted down four separate plans over the past two weeks. With the defeat of the final one, the legislative action is over until next year. Bring on the attack...
...issue "is going to play very badly" for Democratic incumbent Tim Johnson in his bid to defend his seat from House Republican John Thune, says Thune spokeswoman Christine Iverson. That may be why Daschle had Johnson give last Saturday's weekly Democratic radio address. Johnson used it to blame defeat of the Senate bill on the Republicans and contended the House plan "would do absolutely nothing to reduce the cost of prescriptions...
...talk has only just begun. This time, though, Republicans are likely to be making as much noise as Democrats. As the final proposal headed for defeat on the Senate floor last week, George W. Bush's Health and Human Services Department was granting a federal waiver so that three Governors can use Medicaid funds to expand drug coverage to poor seniors who don't otherwise qualify. One of the lucky Governors: Jeb Bush of Florida. Helping is what family's all about...
What happened? Easy. Schröder has to face the voters on Sept. 22, and all the polls signal a sure defeat. His Social Democratic Party has been trailing Edmund Stoiber's Christian Democrats for many weeks, most recently by seven percentage points. Schröder simply cannot clamber out of the hole that is deepened daily by a sinking economy, plummeting stock markets and worsening unemployment. About to end up as a one-term Chancellor, he is playing his last worst card: nationalism with an anti-American tinge...