Tony Blankley of the Washington Times on how the passage of the Republican Party’s Medicare/prescription drug bill demonstrates that “that the political center of gravity in Washington is shifting definitively to the GOP for the first time since the pre-FDR era.” Not only have the Republicans gained control of the presidency and both chambers of Congress, but, says Blankley, they are now succeeding in “prying the cold, almost dead, Democratic fingers off the law firms, lobbyists and trade associations.” According to Blankley, “that is the significance of the AARP decision to cut a deal with the GOP on the Democrats’ signature issue of Medicare
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