Here’s a beauty: to vote or not to vote, to favor or not to favor the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill?

Theoretically, everybody’s in favor of a plan to help senior citizens with prescription drug costs, which are truly appalling. Many seniors literally have to choose between their meds or food. Everyone agrees it’s awful — the question is whether the bills currently in the House and Senate are actually an improvement.

Those of you who make up your minds based on the if-he’s-for-it, I’m-against-it method (quite a few people seem to be doing that these days) are in deep doo-doo on this one. True, Ted Kennedy is for it, and The Wall Street Journal is against it. On the other hand, the White House is for it, and pretty much everyone on the left except Kennedy is against it. The press is helpfully wringing its hands and announcing, ‘This is soooo complicated.’ ” — Molly Ivins, syndicated