As long as the target is George W. Bush, no fact checking is necessary

On Mammogram Guidelines, No Fact Checks for Sebelius or Durbin

By Michael Bates Monday, November 23, 2009

When outrage erupted this week over a government panel’s recommendation that women have fewer mammograms, health and human services secretary Kathleen Sebelius was prepared with the Obama administration’s favorite talking point: It’s all Bush’s fault. Appearing Wednesday on CNN’s The Situation Room, Sebelius told anchor Wolf Blitzer:

This panel was appointed by the prior administration, by former President George Bush, and given the charge to routinely look at a whole host of services to make sure that new preventive services which had benefit were being looked at by health care providers and that things that they felt did not have as much benefit as we move forward were also looked at by health care providers.

Senate majority whip Richard Durbin (D-IL) continued the theme on Friday as reported by Politico:

“The recommendation by this medical panel has been rejected by virtually everyone, including the current administration,â€