Despite his election campaign promise to bring honor and integrity back to the White House, the President has once again shown that facts take a back seat to politics. Previous events are well-documented, if not often the object of press reports, but the newest example of the President's dishonesty is getting a least a little attention.
Now that the President has pushed his farce of a Medicare Prescription Plan through Congress, it seems that he threatened Richard S. Foster, the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, with losing his job if he released budget information that put the cost of the plan at $551 billion dollars, substantially higher than the $395 billion that the White House claimed it would cost.
In an additional example of the Bush Administration's attitude toward honesty and integrity, it responded by calling Foster a "liar".
Are we really sure this is an improvement over Bill Clinton's Oval Office antics? At least President Clinton wasn't lying about policy issues.
Posted by Chris at March 16, 2004 11:04 AM