BUSH: "DEADLINES ARE IMPORTANT"

[im10ashus]

File this under :wtf:!

If deadlines are SO important, why don't they set a deadline for getting the hell out of Iraq?

Bush rejects extension of Medicare drug deadline

SUN CITY CENTER, Florida (AP) -- President Bush has heard pleas for an extension of the deadline to sign up for new Medicare drug coverage from lawmakers, seniors advocacy groups and finally two women in his audience Tuesday. He's rejected them all.

"Deadlines are important," the president said at a retirement community, less than a week before the last day for most seniors and the disabled to enroll in the program without facing higher prices. "Deadlines help people understand there's finality and people need to get after it."

The new program allows 43 million Medicare beneficiaries to enroll in a private plan that will subsidize the cost of their prescription medications. With about 37 million people now either signed up or automatically enrolled, federal officials from Bush on down have engaged in an all-out push to spread the word to those remaining and help them navigate the Byzantine process of choosing a plan by Monday.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/09/bush.ap/index.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. need to get after it?

wa da fa?

Barnum and Bailey never undermisestimated the public. This guy thrives on thinking that all americans are idiots.

[acmavm]

6. That is EXACTLY the first thing I thought. Who does this

pompous, overbearing, intellectually challenged SOB think he is? I understand that he wants to be the dictator of this country, I also understand that he's scared shitless that him and his 'party' are gonna lose control so he knows he's not a dictator. I guess he's just a horrible disgusting petty SOB who's having to face the fact that he's screwed up everything he's ever touched and just may be in for some BIG problems down the line.

Shit for brains asshole, need to get after it. We need to get after him. I can hear the Hague calling now.

[rustydog]

2. But they are not so important as, say, leaving Iraq by May 31st?

[mike_c]

3. I think he meant "lines of dead...."

[saltpoint]

4. What an obnoxious way to speak to the elderly. Bush just sucks. /nt

[Justice Is Comin]

5. They should hand out

barf bags everywhere he speaks.

[napi21]

7. I actually LOVE that he said that to a Grandma!

Go ahead Shrub, piss off all the old BUT ALWAYS VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION seniors! Some may say old people have failing memories, but when it comes to something like this, those memories are link an elephant's!

He did it in Fl too! HA! Old people capital of the USA!

Keep it up Shrub! I look forward to you squirming for your last two years too!

[im10ashus]

8. And how about a deadline for getting the hell out of Iraq?

He just doesn't see how many double-standards he has set.

[spanone]

9. As articulate as an artichoke. He could give a rat's ass about those folks

The pharma people are the ones with the money, not the old folks.