William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

When the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill was passed, the stench coming out of Washington was foul. It really should have been much fouler, however. Basically, what happened was this - a large group of U.S. politicians literally sold their soul to Big Pharma lobbyists to get a nightmare of a $500-billion (or up to more than $1 trillion) bill pushed through Congress, using means both fair and foul.

“The pharmaceutical lobbyists wrote the bill,” said Sen. Walter Jones. “The bill was over 1,000 pages. And it got to the members of the House that morning, and we voted for it at about 3 a.m. in the morning. … I’ve been in politics for 22 years, and it was the ugliest night I have ever seen in 22 years.”

Steve Kroft hosted a 60 Minutes segment on the bull rush toward pushing this bill through Congress and showed the Congressmen that have a price tag on their soul, and are for the most part are all now Big Pharma lobbyists themselves, and see very little wrong with that. If there is a more perfect example of U.S. politicians selling out their constituents, I have yet to find it. The actions of these politicians is exactly the same as their third-world counterparts. Utterly shameless.

Here’s something President George W. Bush had to say upon signing the bill:

I appreciate the hard work of the House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, in seeing that this bill was passed. I also appreciate the hard work of the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Bill Thomas, for his good work. The Chairman of the Finance Committee in the Senate, Senator Chuck Grassley, did a noble job. And he was joined in this task by the Ranking Member of the Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus of Montana.

And the entire Senate effort was boosted by the efforts of a man from Louisiana, Senator John Breaux. And speaking about Louisiana, Billy Tauzin of the House of Representatives did great work on this bill. Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah made a significant contribution. Nancy Johnson, the House member from Connecticut, did a great job. Mike Bilirakis from Florida worked hard on this piece of legislation. I want to thank all the other members of the Congress and the Senate who have joined us. Thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to share in this historic moment.

Every last name Bush mentioned is a traitor to the American people. As is Bush for signing it. There is just no other way to view it. They whored themselves out at the expense of U.S. citizens, pure and simple.

You can (and should) watch the 60 Minutes segment by clicking here (via Crooks and Liars).

–WKW

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