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Friday, February 17, 2006 12:00 AM

Rx for GOP doom

The Medicare drug program disaster could cost Republicans control of Congress.

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  • Friday, February 17, 2006 10:36 AM

    Joe's absolutely right, but...

    Joe's absolutely right on about this. If the Democrats cannot regain control of Congress on this one issue alone, they don't deserve to win ever.

    But you can bet the ranch the pharmas are reading the tealeaves, and doing everything possible to curry favor with incumbent Democrats and all those likely to be freshmen next session.

    Will they be like those challengers who campaigned on term limits, and once successful refused to honor their pledges to serve a limited number of terms -- because they had to continue ther work to make term limits a legal requirement.

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