Upwardly Mobile... on the Backs of Senior Citizens

What a surprise! Congressman Billy Tauzin (R(at)- Louisiana) has announced that he will step down on 2-16-04 as the chair of a committee that helped push through that dreadful new Medicare drug prescription plan and will retire from Congress. No doubt, this is both to spend more time with his family AND to spend more time with the $1 million+ job he's been offered with the pharmaceutical company lobbying group which stands to benefit far more lucratively from the Medicare drug plan than will seniors.

For some strange reason, the term scum-sucking greedy pig keeps going through my mind.