Arlen “Scottish Law” Specter (RINO D-PA) completed his initiation into the party of the ass by blaming his mid-life party for the death of Jack Kemp.
News flash for Scottish Law – your old/new party wants to drive the entities responsible for the vast majority of medical advances the last 50 years, the privately-owned drug companies, out of business.
Revisions/extensions (11:29 am 5/4/2009) – Ed Morrissey did some research, and found that, after inflation, government spending on what the Heritage Foundation and the Office of Management and Budget terms health research and regulation increased 46% between 2001 and 2006. That is far larger than the total 23% post-inflation increase in either total government spending or the 36% post-inflation increase in “discretionary” government spending.
