What it takes?

Senator Grassley thought the President might support his bill to help the victims of Katrina...must have gotten confused and actually believed that bit about doing "what it takes".

Must have thought his support for Bush's program would be reciprocated. Maybe he really believed that stuff about "compassionate conservatism"?

Leaders of a Senate committee including its Republican head bluntly accused the Bush administration on Thursday of sabotaging a bill to provide Medicaid health assistance for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

"Unfortunately, the White House is working against me behind the scenes, and I resent that, considering how I've delivered so much for the White House over the last five years," Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley said at a hearing on recovery efforts from the U.S. Gulf Coast hurricanes.

Grassley, of Iowa, has been a key ally of President George W. Bush's proposal to overhaul the Social Security retirement system at a time when other Republicans have been wary.

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