23 Jul 2003 If Republicans Controlled Congress…

“If Republicans controlled Congress and the White House, this headache never would have happened,” says Scripps Howard columnist (and Project 21 member) Deroy Murdock, tongue firmly in cheek, about the Medicare prescription drug bills.

Deroy, writing for National Review Online, also figured out the number of zeros involved in the initiative’s unfunded long-term liability: eleven, as in $7,500,000,000,000, or $7.5 trillion.