World Class Hypocrisy

I think the point is that Franks was originally against Medicaire-D for financial reasons, then voted for it, DESPITE budget concerns that he himself acknowledged. He came to believe that some things, like prescription drug benefits, were more important than a trillion-dollar program with no dedicated funding. Fast forward and the convert has become an apostate. A less-expensive program, one that will insure tens of millions of citizens while costing the federal government little if anything, is now to be fought with every ounce of strength in Franks' body.

That doesn't necessarily make Franks more of a hypocrit than those who supported Part-D from the beginning, but it makes him someone who loudly proclaimed importance of fiscal restraint, then dramaticallly acknowledged that some things are more important than high costs... whereas those things are now somehow less important, even when costs are also lower. If this doesn't make Franks the worst hypocrit of the bunch, it certainly makes him a flip-flopper or legendary proportions.