George W. Bush will not get a flu shot. Neither will some younger senators. If you make the rules, you have to follow the rules, and the rules say that only sick people and old people and very young people get shots this year.
Of course, the people who make the rules could put in a clause "except for the rulemakers." They do that, routinely, for labor-friendly laws that threaten to apply to their own staff.
When a President gets sick, when a Senator gets sick, whatever ball he or she was holding at the onset of the sickness gets dropped. If that ball is 'tracking Russian nukes' or 'school lunches,' a lot of people suffer.
Can we live with a law that says: 'take care of the important people first, and after that be fair?'
Posted by shea0017 at October 22, 2004 9:35 AM