"The government's longtime chief analyst of Medicare costs said yesterday that Bush administration officials threatened to fire him last year if he disclosed to Congress that he believed the prescription drug legislation favored by the White House would prove far more expensive than lawmakers had been told."

As we know now, the official cost estimate is a third higher ($535 billion over ten years) than we were told when the bill was being debated. What did did John Kerry call them? Crooks and liars? (Not that his wing of the ruling class is any better.)