Comments on: Dems AARP Debate: No candor, more pander http://morewhat.com/wordpress/dems-aarp-debate-no-candor-more-pander/ To build consensus on issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:22:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Stanford Matthews http://morewhat.com/wordpress/dems-aarp-debate-no-candor-more-pander/#comment-16091 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:47:20 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/dems-aarp-debate-no-candor-more-pander/#comment-16091 http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2003/roll332.xml http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00262 In the House the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act passed by one vote on a party line. The GOP was not pandering to 'old folks'. They were doing the Tom Delay shuffle for K Street, worse than pandering to voters. But in the Senate it passed by a large margin and was not party line. So it may appear that Senate Dems were as eager as the GOP for a piece of the lobby pie. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2003/roll332.xml
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00262

In the House the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act passed by one vote on a party line. The GOP was not pandering to ‘old folks’. They were doing the Tom Delay shuffle for K Street, worse than pandering to voters.

But in the Senate it passed by a large margin and was not party line. So it may appear that Senate Dems were as eager as the GOP for a piece of the lobby pie.

]]> by: gregdn http://morewhat.com/wordpress/dems-aarp-debate-no-candor-more-pander/#comment-16083 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:40:42 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/dems-aarp-debate-no-candor-more-pander/#comment-16083 Uh, which party was it that passed Medicare part D, the biggest expansion of federal benefits in years? And which president signed it? Face it, both parties pander to old folks. Uh, which party was it that passed Medicare part D, the biggest expansion of federal benefits in years? And which president signed it?
Face it, both parties pander to old folks.

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