A Senate Medicare bill slated to save $26 billion emerged from conference committee yesterday about $22 billion slimmer. Industry liposuction, I guess. Generally, these vanishing acts meet with knowing chuckles from the villains involved, but with Abramoff's hefty, wide-brimmed shadow looming over Washington, better excuses are needed. Like Charles Grassley's protests that, in fact, the bills are no different, he's just unable to do math:
Funny How That Works
Funny How That Works
Funny How That Works
A Senate Medicare bill slated to save $26 billion emerged from conference committee yesterday about $22 billion slimmer. Industry liposuction, I guess. Generally, these vanishing acts meet with knowing chuckles from the villains involved, but with Abramoff's hefty, wide-brimmed shadow looming over Washington, better excuses are needed. Like Charles Grassley's protests that, in fact, the bills are no different, he's just unable to do math: