Saturday, December 18, 2004

Tommy Gone

Another Bush picked Governor, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, catapulted to notoriety by taking control of a Federal Administration – Health and Human Services in this case – is beating a hasty retreat back to the haystacks.
During his time as director of the department it has become apparent that the department is more interested in generating income for foreign scientists who have just about taken over the department.
Mark McClellan, the government's Medicare chief and brother to the White House press secretary, the rosy cheeked Scott McClellan is in line to take over the department.
Considering McClellan’s bungling of the Medicare system we can all look forward to some cliffhangers at the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Medicare system has become more entangled with bureaucratic foul ups even as they provide less and less of the service for which they were created.
Having one of the McClellan Brothers taking on more responsibility for the health of our nation and responsible for responding todisease outbreaks is no comfort to me as a father and son.
The mother is an outspoken Texas Republican who has dominated Texas politics for nearly two decades. Carole Keeton Strayhorn, has been Austin’s mayor, Texas Railroad Commissioner and State's Comptroller.
Moneybags Strayhorn has positioned her sons and done a lotfor Scott before applying the Strayhorn strong arm on behalf of Mark.
As a life long bureaucrat McClellan’s mother enjoys a full compliment of health insurance benefits not available to most Americans and never will be if her son gets her way.

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