Say It Ain't So Hillary, Say It Ain't SO!!!
Shocked! Shocked I Say!!
By haystack Posted in 2008 | Democrats | Dippin' For Donors | Hillary Clinton | KickBacks — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Via Outside The Beltway we learn the presumed Democrat POTUS nominee, Hillary Clinton, is talking out of both sides of her mouth. [gasp] I can't believe it given, she has been so consistent on so many important issues such as driver's licenses for illegals. I am shocked!
OTB points us to a piece at the Boston Examiner in which Timothy P. Carney raises a very interesting flag about double dippin' for donor AND PAC love:
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., portrays herself as a scourge of the pharmaceutical industry, but she has shown that she’s willing to help a drugmaker if that’s what it takes to profit Planned Parenthood, her indispensable political ally.
Clinton’s campaign Web site touts that she has “battled the big drug companies.” Yet she has sponsored many bills that would directly subsidize Barr Laboratories, maker of the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B, which also functions as an abortifacient. Thanks to a deal cut between Barr and Planned Parenthood, those taxpayer subsidies will yield generous profits for the pro-choice group that every four years spends millions trying to elect a Democrat to the White House.
S'matter Hill babes, does THIS stuff confuse you too?
More below the fold...
Further down, there's more:
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On Sept. 27, Clinton and eight other Democratic senators introduced the “Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007.” While Clinton’s broad health care plan would “limit direct-to-consumer advertising” of prescription drugs, this particular bill would subsidize such advertising for emergency contraceptives in the name of a public awareness campaign for “postcoital contraception.” In effect, this bill would give Planned Parenthood tax money to conduct an ad campaign for the morning-after pill.
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Clinton touts her pro-Plan B proposals as a defense of women’s health, but from another perspective, she is pushing taxpayer subsidies for the advertising and sales of a product that already enjoys a government-protected monopoly. How has the company reciprocated? While Barr’s donations to Hillary’s campaign are surprisingly small, the timing appears strangely blatant.Last year, just as Andrew von Eschenbach’s name was being floated for FDA director, Barr CEO Bruce Downey cut a $1,000 check to Clinton’s campaign. A couple of weeks later, Hillary announced her hold on Eschenbach’s nomination and introduced her Plan B subsidy bill.
This year, the day after Clinton introduced her Plan B awareness bill, Barr Executive Vice President Frederick J. Killion donated $1,000 to her campaign.
Surely, Madame President...err, I mean...Madame Senator...there's some sort of mistake? Surely we aren't staring at another Hsu moment?
Surely you'll EITHER pull your sponsorship of this bill, or give the money back?
Surely...
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'battling' an industry that provides huge amounts of the health care -pharmaceutical industry, or the ability to afford health care - insurance, is one that needs to be examined more thoroughly. And iwth very negative implications for the government.
How dare Hillary or anyone else target an industry for being weakened or punished for what it does? From the bloviation of Schip to the interference with drug company's ability to recover costs and a profit on drugs, they are negative. What in the heck is the congress doing pretending that their undermining of industries that do more for Americans than the feds ever dreamed of?
She is doing what makes sense politically. Pharmaceuticals have a bad reputation. If you go after them, that is a good populist message. It is no different from every politician falling over themselves to target me, the mortgage broker. We have a bad reputation so every single politician in the world wants to target us. It is class warfare. It is no different than politicians looking to impose limits on how much CEO's can make. It is more class warfare.
The problem is that the politically unsophisticated root this on. There are plenty of poor that feel contempt for pharmaceuticals because the price of drugs is too high. Thus, if Hillary attacks them, that works with them. If on the DL she also supports the one that supports her, well most people don't find out about that.
One thing is for sure, Hillary really understands how the game is played.
Always tell the truth, George; it's the easiest thing to remember.
Don't you know the decision hierarchy? Killing babies trumps all other issues.
Gadzooks man, you did know she is a compassionate woman didn't you? I mean, even though that fact just came to the foreground your just plain mean. Why don't you go rope some horses and stop picking on her ya' big bully. :-)
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
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Hillary's only against making drugs that save lives.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill