Talking to seniors, Bush called Medicare "the new deal"

[Rose Siding]

Later, Bush visited Ferris Hills at West Lake, a seniors residence. He was supposed to be there during a Medicare education session for residents, but weather forced a schedule rearrangement that had him arriving about 90 minutes late, after the program was completed. So Bush was left briefly greeting a few seniors who waited for him in common rooms.

He perhaps unwittingly used language recalling a famous Democratic anti-poverty initiative, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s.

"Everybody explaining Medicare to you _ the new deal?" Bush asked a crowd in one room. "I hope so. It's worth looking at."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031400775.html

[MadMaddie]

1. He is stupid...he has no idea of the historical significance of

The New Deal!!

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid,

[Rose Siding]

2. I think Karl probably told him, but I don't think seniors will fall for it

They WISH ;)

[Cleita]

3. It was Johnson who signed Medicare into law under his

War on Poverty platform. Deals, new or old had nothing to do with it. In Bush's case the new deal is really a used car deal for seniors. His was a bad choice of words.