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While our Corporate-owned Commander-in-Chief is busy prepping national opinion for the next phase of his War Against non-Christians, the latest item on a lengthening list of failure emerges in his (lack of) domestic policy:

From the Washington Post:

Two weeks into the new Medicare prescription drug program, many of the nation’s sickest and poorest elderly and disabled people are being turned away or overcharged at pharmacies, prompting more than a dozen states to declare health emergencies and pay for their life-saving medicines.

Computer glitches, overloaded telephone lines and poorly trained pharmacists are being blamed for mix-ups that have resulted in the worst of unintended consequences: As many as 6.4 million low-income seniors, who until Dec. 31 received their medications free, suddenly find themselves navigating an insurance maze of large deductibles, co-payments and outright denial of coverage

You’ve got to hand it to him, he is consistent: Katrina wiped out half a state, and his administration just jeeps warring, the ripple effects of the storm that devastated New Orleans will likely have adverse affects on the Republican base throughout the south, but no one cares. Now, the administration is alienating the aging baby boomer generation, a voting bloc most politicians have been pandering to for decades. All the while the Bushoviks are killing off the youngest voting-age demographic in a can’t-win war against… whatever it’s against.

What’s a mid-lifer like myself supposed to do – watch as my mother goes blind filling out forms in order to get the glaucoma medicine the government used to provide, or watch as my nephew proudly enlists his way into a body bag?

While my nephew tromps through the sand on his way to the next bullet, his poor wife struggles with their daughter’s inner-city school district to provide assistance because she’s a slow learner. She’s not disabled, by the government’s definition; she just needs more help because her family lives next to the Chicago River, which has for years shown signs of high mercury content, and this proximity to toxins has slightly affected the poor child’s higher reasoning skills.

Ahh… Life in America: the greatest nation on earth; soon to be – if our administration has its way – the only nation on earth. Meanwhile every good Chicagoan can look the other way today and shout: “Go Bears!”