White House gets away with it again

On a party-line vote, the Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee today voted AGAINST asking the White House to turn over its records regarding the estimated cost of the Medicare prescription drug benefit bill passed last year by the slimmest of margins. The white house GUARANTEED conservative republicans -- their own people! -- the bill would cost no more than $400 billion.

You may recall stories about an actuary named Rick Foster working at HHS who told his boss that the cost of the bill would be considerably bigger than promised. You may also recall that Foster said his boss, Tom Scully, threatened to fire him if he went public.

Now we know the program will cost at least 20 percent more than originally advertised. But GOP doesn't want you to know what the white house knew and when they knew it. Just the latest example of this administration getting away with lies.

George Bush: zero truth, zero accountability.