Bush after 9/11 on Osama bin Laden -- Wanted: Dead or Alive. Bush in 2004 -- You say, we pay -- Selling seniors on Medicare drug cards.

I still kinda like the way things were in the old days, as in say as recently as right after September 11.

Bush in September 2002 after 9/11 on capturing Osama bin Laden:

"I want justice," Bush said. "And there's an old poster out West, I recall, that says, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'" Reward -- you name it.

Bush in September 2004 looking for seniors willing to speak up for Medicare discount care card (for a fee of course):

I want senior citizens who are willing -- for a price and regardless of their sincerity -- to speak out in favor of the Medicare drug discount card and write letters to Congress thanking members for saving them money on pharmaceuticals and who appear convincing. Reward -- $4,000.

The Hill reports that a Republican lobbying firm is offering healthcare consultants almost $4,000 each to find senior citizens who are willing to speak out in favor of the Medicare drug discount card and write letters to Congress thanking members for saving them money on pharmaceuticals.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, “It is pathetic, but not surprising, that front groups allied with the Bush administration are using the worst marketing tactics of HMOs and drug companies to ‘sell’ seniors their terrible Medicare bill. Paying health professionals to endorse federal legislation is wrong.”

Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said “It’s increasingly difficult to determine where the Bush administration ends and the drug industry begins.”

House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said, “I don’t know if there is better testimony that the Republican drug card is a flop than the fact that a Republican political group is offering bounties to anyone who finds that rare senior who might say publicly that they like it.”