Yeah, Like This Will Be a Winner for Republicans

As the late, great Steve Gilliard says, never stop a your enemy from stepping on his own dick, and George W. Bush's proposal to raise Medicare premiums is such an example.

It turns out that the Medicare costs projected by the lying sacks of excrement in the Bush admin are wrong, so the lying chimpy usurper boy is proposing an increase in premiums, along with the proposed cuts he put forward earlier.

FWIW, I think that this is an excellent time to reintroduce legislation granting authority to the government to negotiate with drug makers.

The Republicans are going to have to vote for higher premiums, which is a political loser, and for Medicare cuts, which is a political loser, and against the power to negotiate with drug manufacturers, which is a political loser.

Heck of a job Georgie.