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Hillarycare is back
Just when you thought government couldn’t be scarier, we now learn that Sen.
Hillary Clinton is going to revive Hillarycare.
"Now, I've had some experience with health care. I know that making health
care more accessible for every American family will not be easy," Hillary
states in her e-mail championing herself as the leader in health care.
Hillary seems to want to implement a rationed care system like the one in
Canada. At least, that is what she indicates as the model to follow in her
latest e-mail to friends:
We have already seen the ineptitude of the Bush Administration and the
Republican Congress when it comes to health care. Their new Prescription
Drug Plan, touted as a benefit for America's seniors, has literally left
tens of thousands of seniors denied their medications, overcharged, or
turned away from pharmacies.
Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry is the true beneficiary. The Bush
plan prevents Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices for seniors. It
bars Americans from re-importing safe, affordable prescription drugs from
Canada. It has the wrong priorities.
Hillary asks friends to go to a website where she is collecting stories
about individuals who have hardships with healthcare.
Supreme Court on campaigns
What does it mean?
"…[W]e did not purport to resolve future as-applied challenges."
Soon after the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, the
court upheld the law in a 5-to-4 decision that considered multiple
free-speech challenges to the statute "on its face" rather than in
particular applications.
Now the court has said to lower courts that this does not preclude specific
and particular challenges to the more commonly known McCain-Feingold
Campaign Finance Reform Act.
The likely impact of the decision is that the Wisconsin Right to Life Inc.
v. the Federal Election Commission, No. 04-1581, will reopen the issue of
how to administer the law. New litigation is expected to test whether
specific advertisements fall under the law's definition of those that may
not be broadcast within 60 days of a federal election paid for with money
from a corporation's treasury.
Bayh’s friends
A couple of Iowa state legislators introduced an education plan based on a
program, the "21st Century Scholars," which Evan Bayh passed during his
tenure as Indiana’s governor.
The legislation was introduced by state Rep.
Janet Petersen (D) and
state Sen. Jeff Danielson
(D). The plan asks 7th and 8th grade students either living below the
poverty line or in foster homes to sign a pledge vowing to remain crime,
drug and tobacco free, and maintain a "C" average throughout high school. In
return, the students would be given free college tuition at any Iowa
university or community college.
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