Tax Dollars for Bush/Cheney 2004 From David Sirota's blog: The White House today announced it will be spending another $18 million of taxpayer money on television ads promoting its new Medicare bill. Not only was the last round of ads criticized by government regulators as misleading, but the White House is on track to spend more Medicare money on television ads ($80 million) than its own FDA commissioner says is necessary to create a safe system to import cheaper, FDA-approved prescription medicines from abroad ($58 million). All for the sake, not of better prescription drug coverage for retirees, but to make money for their fatcat drug company supporters. Could they be any more fucking pathetic?