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Crooks and Liars offers video copies of a recent 60 minutes piece on how pharmaceutical industry lobbyists literally wrote the historic Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and got it passed in the middle of the night.

"The pharmaceutical lobbyists wrote the bill," says [Republican Congressman Walter] Jones. "The bill was over 1,000 pages. And it got to the members of the House that morning, and we voted for it at about 3 a.m. in the morning….I've been in politics for 22 years, and it was the ugliest night I have ever seen in 22 years."

Flashback to the Presidential speech when the law was signed:

"A lot of this happened -- this bill happened because of grassroots work. A lot of our fellow citizens took it upon themselves to agitate for change, to lobby on behalf of what's right."

By "grassroots" and "fellow citizens" he of course means rich pharma douchebags who spent $141 Million in 2003 to buy a bill whose sole purpose was to increase their revenues in exchange for human lives.