Argh

Seriously—I don’t even understand how this happens, and why the entire rest of the country is, apparently, powerless to do anything about it:

Dr. Frist’s special prescription for big Pharma. “Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert engineered a backroom legislative maneuver to protect pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits…The language was tucked into a Defense Department appropriations bill at the last minute without the approval of members of a House-Senate conference committee, say several witnesses, including a top Republican staff member.”
Great. So how much of this kind of bullshit are we supposed to take because the GOP is a bunch of corrupt miscreants who won’t pursue investigations of their own?

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