- In which we are reminded anew of Hillary’s antedeluvian trade policies. RedState

- Hillary gives Wall Street a Warning, quote from the NY Sun:

 Senator Clinton gave a clear indication yesterday that as president she would be happy to intervene in the management of the economy if she thought the free market was failing middle-class Americans.

Speaking to donors and supporters at Nasdaq’s headquarters in Times Square, Mrs. Clinton threatened legislation to regulate the mortgage lending industry closely if money managers do not come up with their own scheme to defray the effects of the subprime mortgage collapse. She also served notice on wealthy Americans that they should be prepared for tax increases.

- Quoted from Hillary’s Charm Offensive by Voegli at No Left Turns:

Haven’t we seen this before – the boundless sense of entitlement, the fury at those who would presume to deny the self-anointed candidate her destiny? Despite all the talk about how Hillary had grown in the aftermath of the health care debacle, the stories about how she had learned to play nice with others in the Senate, the same attractive attitudes and habits that endeared her to the nation 15 years ago are once again on display.

Carl Bernstein’s book, A Woman in Charge, reports that in 1993 the First Lady beguilingly told a group of Democratic senators, who expressed doubts about the political feasibility of passing ambitious health care reforms, that the Clinton administration would “demonize” those who stood in the way of her plan. It was the last straw for Sen. Bill Bradley. “You don’t tell members of the Senate you are going to demonize them. It was obviously so basic to who she is. The arrogance. The assumption that people with questions are enemies. The disdain. The hypocrisy.”

When her task force of 500 members and 34 committees sent the Democratic Congress a bill that was 1,324 pages long, it sank like an anvil. Smaller, simpler measures might have passed, but the First Lady refused to support any plan but her own. Bob Boorstin, a media relations deputy with the task force, told Bernstein that Hillary is “among the most self-righteous people I’ve ever met in my life.”

Source: Maggie’s Farm

The advocates of government-run health care gleefully anticipate the upcoming presidential election. Convinced that Hillary Clinton will easily beat any candidate foolish enough to accept the Republican presidential nomination, they expect to see Hillarycare 2.0 enacted before they fully recover from their inaugural party hangovers.

This sense of complacency has been bolstered by the recent battle between Congress and the White House over expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Ezra Klein’s assessment of its effect on the socialized medicine "coalition" echoes that of Jonathan Cohn and other "progressive" policy wonks: "…its galvanization of liberal interest groups and creation of new, pro-expansion coalitions is creating the template for what the Clintons didn’t have: An aggressive, sophisticated, well-funded, pro-reform lobby." Presumably, this lobby will be the force that finally leads us to the promised land of Hillarycare.

But Klein, Cohn and others of their persuasion are indulging in wishful thinking. Recent developments both within the Beltway and on the West Coast bode ill for the larger cause of "universal" government-run health care. Not only have congressional Democrats been unable to prevail against the minority party and a lame duck president in their effort to expand SCHIP coverage to middle class kids and adults, a similar proposal has just been overwhelmingly rejected by the voters of the deep blue state of Oregon.

As to the congressional SCHIP debate, one has to do a lot of digging to find a pony for the pro-Hillarycare crowd. Having already vetoed one SCHIP bill, President Bush says he will continue to reject child health care legislation that significantly exceeds the $5 billion increase he has proposed for SCHIP. And, even after a media blitz that included the disgraceful exploitation of Graeme Frost, the "aggressive, sophisticated, well-funded" health care coalition was unable to cobble together a veto-proof majority that would support the $35 billion increase the Democrats initially demanded.

In fact, the pro-expansion coalition actually lost ground as negotiations proceeded on a compromise bill. Believing that public opinion was on their side, the Democrats and their allies clearly felt that a few token concessions would enable them to pick up enough GOP votes for an override. But on November 15, a group of rank-and-file Republicans proposed changes to the bill that would have imposed eligibility limits on Medicaid. This proposal, which stalled negotiations and assured the eventual shelving of the SCHIP expansion bill, signaled that the tide had turned. The Democrats found themselves under increasing pressure from the states to wrap things up before the money ran out in December, while the Republicans were feeling little urgency to get a SCHIP deal done.

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Health Care

Japanese doctor says, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can
take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him out
looking for work in six weeks."

A German doctor says, "That is nothing. We can take a lung out of one
person, put it in another, and have him out looking for work in four weeks."

A British doctor says, "In my country medicine is so advanced that we
can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have
both of them out looking for work in two weeks."

The American doctor, not to be outdone, interjected, "You guys are way
behind. We are about to take a woman with no brains, put her in the
White House, and then half the country will be out looking for work."

Thank you Christy!

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton vows that as president, she’d return the country to "fiscal responsibility," but critics charge that her proposals could blow a hole worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the deficit and even would provide a tax cut to some of the nation’s richest people.

The Democratic front-runner says her torrent of promises — which would cost hundreds of billions of dollars — is paid for.

"What Senator Clinton has said throughout the campaign is that she will pay for every single proposal without increasing the deficit," said Brian Deese, a policy analyst with the Clinton campaign. "Focusing on a commitment to pay as you go would be a dramatic change from the Bush administration."

But pledging not to increase the deficit — as opposed to reducing it — isn’t real fiscal responsibility, critics say, questioning Clinton’s method of payment for her most prominent, most expensive proposals:

• To pay for her $100-billion-a-year-plus health care plan, Clinton would allow President Bush’s tax cuts for those who earn more than $250,000 a year to expire, as scheduled, in 2010.

• To pay for her $25-billion-a-year retirement security plan and for half of her $8 billion-a-year college tuition assistance plan, she’d freeze the estate tax at 2009 levels.

Allowing Bush’s tax cuts to expire to pay for health care doesn’t do anything to restore fiscal responsibility because it’s spending money that otherwise would flow into federal coffers to reduce the deficit, said Len Burman, the director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the center-left Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute.

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Interested in how other countries are handling their Socialized Medicine?

www.hillarycare2.com is a clearing house of news article after news article of how this system is failing the people of the country.

For example:

A WOMAN was de-registered by her NHS dentist because she was 15 minutes late for an appointment. Now the Scottish Public Services ombudsman has upheld her complaint against Marchmont Dental Care.

AN elderly woman whose broken ankle was set in plaster at a "strange angle" has won her complaint about the treatment at St John’s Hospital in Livingston.

The parents of a five-year-old girl who died on the operating table when her aorta was ruptured by a surgical instrument have said that "incredible risks" were taken with their daughter.

Great site - documenting what all of us will have to look forward to IF Hillary Clinton becomes President.

From The Liberty Papers

The more things change, the more things stay the same. Way back before Ronald Reagan’s political career, he recognized the problems which would occur if America had adopted socialized medicine. With congress working to pass the SCHIP bill to provide government funded healthcare for children of parents with annual incomes up to $80,000, this radio commentary is just as relevant today as it was then. Many of Reagan’s fears about socialized medicine have been realized in other countries. If we are not careful, we will face similar consequences here.

New staff, videos, and redesigned blog part of broad effort to advance free market alternatives.

When Hillary Clinton launched a plan to socialize America’s health-care system in 1993, Citizens for a Sound Economy organized grassroots efforts that resulted in the plan’s defeat. Today, Hillary Clinton is touting yet another proposal to expand government control over the nation’s medicine. And once again FreedomWorks, the new name for Citizens for a Sound Economy, is working to mobilize grassroots opposition. Using viral video and social networking, FreedomWorks is making its mission to “Stop HillaryCare. Again.”

The first video advertisement in the Stop HillaryCare campaign can be viewed here: http://www.freedomworks.org/stophillarycare/ The video, produced by FreedomWorks’ Peter Suderman, has already been viewed more than 9,200 times on YouTube.

FreedomWorks is also launching a related Facebook Group called "Stop HillaryCare. Again.", which has attracted over 800 members and growing.

Finally, FreedomWorks has released a redesign of its blog, FreedomTalks, at www.FreedomTalks.org. The blog gives FreedomWorks a channel to rapidly respond with the facts on health care and other key economic issues.

To advance these expanded campaigns, FreedomWorks recently added three new members to its media and campaign team.

Peter Suderman joined FreedomWorks in August from National Review Online, where he was managing editor. Suderman serves as a Policy Analyst and writer at FreedomWorks and is a primary contributor to the FreedomTalks blog. Since joining FreedomWorks, Suderman has been published in The Examiner, The Washington Times, Cnet, Townhall, and National Review Online.

Nan Swift recently joined FreedomWorks as a Campaign Coordinator. Previously, she served at the Leadership Institute where she organized students on college campuses and trained people to be more effective communicators. As a Campaign Coordinator, Swift will work with directly with FreedomWorks activists to advocate for lower taxes and less government.

Thomas Keeley is the new Online Marketing Coordinator. Keeley will manage FreedomWorks’ online marketing and internet community-building outreach. Previous to FreedomWorks, Keeley was a Development Fellow at the Leadership Institute.

Source: FreedomWorks.com