Rahm is annoying the right people:
“He’s trying to create wedge issues to run on regardless of the merit of the policy,” said Pete Jeffries, a former spokesman for Hastert.
Oh, say like gay marriage?
When Tom DeLay’s pool boy gets done being outraged, he might look at the guy pulling his strings and notice the pot and the kettle kind of look a like.
He was the chief architect behind Democrat Melissa Bean’s ouster of veteran U.S. Rep. Phil Crane (R-Ill.) in November. He masterminded Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s populist-style campaign to import prescription drugs, which put the politically ambitious governor in headlines across the nation and forced President Bush in his re-election year to defend import restrictions that keep prices high.
Bean pulled in $30 million transportation funds.
To put this in perspective, each Member gets about $11 and Members of Transportation get another $22 this year from what I’ve heard. She almost got as much for her District as a Member of the Transportation Committee. Rahm’s plotting for 2006.
Bean & “DeLay’s Pool Boy”
Archpundit. Heh….
I don’t understand why people keep talking about drug re-importation as some kind of savior event. It’s pointless and inefficient laundering, that would be completely unnecessary if prices were negotiated more strongly in the first place.