The race to replace Nancy “Donut-Hole” Johnson is on in Connecticut's Fifth U.S. House District, and state Sen. Chris Murphy is the man to do it. Donut-Hole Johnson looks like a cookie-baking blonde grandmother, which just may be why Bush and Tom Delay have relied so heavily on her to do their dirty work.

Can it really be true that kindly old Nancy Johnson on the one hand can create the misleading and financially dangerous Medicare prescription drug program, and on the other hand can then turn around and take away the patient's right to file for personal bankruptcy? Yes, and it actually makes sense when you think about it – the most dangerous killers are the ones who can get close enough to the victim. Notice that now in Iraq, the terrorists are sending women to be suicide bombers attacking our soldiers, because the soldiers aren't as suspicious of women. The same is true in the Fifth District of Connecticut; first Newt Gingrich, and then Tom Delay and George W. Bush used Nancy Johnson to impose their mean-spirited and shortsighted programs on Connecticut.

Here's the specifics of the Donut-Hole Two-Step: Nancy Johnson as the chairwoman of the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways And Means Committee was assigned by Tom Delay and George Bush to lead the creation of the dangerous and fraudulent Medicare Part D prescription drug program, which for those with heavy medicine needs covers drugs for part of the year, and then you hit the famous Donut Hole with no coverage at all, with coverage only picking back up after you pay several thousand dollars out of pocket. That's Step One.

The second step is that Nancy Johnson strongly backed the egregious bankruptcy reform bill that stripped many important personal bankruptcy rights from poor people, including specifically making it harder for people suffering from high medical and prescription drug costs to get bankruptcy protection. (For more on the bankruptcy bill, click here.)

Got it? First, Donut-Hole Johnson set up our senior citizens with faulty Medicare drug coverage that in fact exposes them to thousands of dollars in unexpected out-of-pocket expenses via the Johnson Donut-Hole, and then Nancy rips away the safety net of being able to declare personal bankruptcy when high medical bills wipe you out.

Hey, Bush and Delay could never have got this through unless they used someone who looks like a blonde-headed grandmother.

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Posted by Connecticut 5 at April 26, 2006 12:36 AM

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