o Win Quigley reports in today’s Albuquerque Journal that Sen. Jeff Bingaman will introduce legislation to improve the new Medicare law.
The New York Times reports that AARP will seek changes, too, aimed at getting lower prices for prescription drugs.
Since Bingaman voted against the Medicare "reform," I have to respect his efforts. Since AARP partnered with the drug industry to get the law passed, I have to assume the "senior lobby" is kidding me.
o A Dean volunteer rang my bell this morning. She looked like an amateur.
Dean’s verbal mishaps have hurt. He may lose his front-runner status. But give him this – like Goldwater and JFK before him, he’s drawn new people into the process.
o The Journal’s not-very-enlightening series on the Democratic candidates continues this morning with Joe Lieberman. And while there was a question about how the world would respond to a Jew in the White House, there was no mention of how much anti-Semitism Lieberman would face as the Democratic standard-bearer.
This is conventional, I gather, but stupid. Heck, it was only about 40 years ago that JFK became our first Roman Catholic President and Catholics represent a significant voting bloc. We have never had a Jewish President and Jews don’t represent a significant voting bloc. In my view, many American Christians would vote against Lieberman because he’s a Jew.
(I hope he is knocked out of the race because he’s Bush lite.)