Don't Ask, Don't Tell

News is out today that Bush's administrator of Medicare, Thomas A. Scully, threatened to fire the program's chief actuary, Richard S. Foster, if Foster told lawmakers the truth about how much Bush's Medicare prescription benefit was actually going to cost. As a result, Mr. Foster's cost estimate did not become known until after the legislation was enacted. Amazingly, Bush's very own Justice Department has decided that there was absolutely nothing wrong with this arrangement, since lying in the interests of George Bush's political agenda is ordained by The Supreme Being, and threatening someone with termination if he tells the simple truth is no big whoop.