Speaking of calamities of the Age of Bush, how 'bout that Medicare prescription-drug plan?

I don't want to get into playing favorites among the calamities of the calamitous Bush years (see below), but I do think note needs to be taken of the unfolding debacle—ooh, that word again!—of the Medicare prescription-drug plan.

Of course, just because the plan isn't working isn't to say that it isn't working as expected. It appears that all over the country in scarifying numbers nonwealthy elderly people have simply not been able to get prescriptions filled, to the point where the worthless sack of shit who presided over this crap legislation has had to step in to counteract its most immediately disastrous consequences. Still, the people who crafted this plan clearly never intended the elderly to be beneficiaries of it (that distinction was reserved for the insurance and drug companies). It's not much of a leap to think that, to the contrary, the elderly were intended to be its victims.

At least financially strapped older people. From the standpoint of the people running the country now, this is no big deal—at least apart from the embarrassment of all those people being deprived of life-sustaining medications. I'm prepared to believe that in their minds there's no reason why people who are old and not rich shouldn't die.