(Mike Blake/Reuters) Posted on 04/29/2007 3:08:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
(Mike Blake/Reuters)
April 29, 2007 -- SAN DIEGO - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday blasted Republican presidential rival Rudy Giuliani's continuing criticism of the Democratic Party's health-care ambitions.
Republicans "are basically taking positions diametrically opposed to us," Clinton told a packed press conference following her speech at the California Democratic Party's convention.
"One of the candidates has called universal health care 'socialized medicine,' " she said, not mentioning Giuliani by name.
But it was clear to the crowd that her remarks were pointed at the ex-mayor's standard campaign statements that the private sector is best equipped to manage America's health care and that too much government involvement amounts to European-style socialized medicine.
Clinton's brief rip against Rudy was also aimed at Giuliani's criticism last week of Democratic leadership regarding the Iraq war.
"I . . . welcome . . . that . . . debate," Clinton told reporters, slowly enunciating each word.
"People have learned from the experience of the Bush administration and the Republican Congress what the differences are" between the Democratic and Republican parties, she said.
"We're tired of [Republicans] believing they can have a government of the few and by the few and for the few," she said.
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Drawing from the first Democratic presidential debate the day before, Giuliani blasted his rivals for ignoring private sector solutions to health care and education.
"I'll be darned if I'm going to concede that Democrats care more about poor people than we do," Giuliani told an audience of the North Carolina Conservative Leadership Conference during a brief base-building trip to the home state of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.
Giuliani said Democratic calls for mandatory universal health care would only exacerbate the cost of care by putting the system in the hands of bureaucrats.
Democratic candidates renewed their calls for universal health care during a debate in South Carolina on Thursday, saying that a new system would help streamline costs and cover the nation's 45 million uninsured.
"They're moving toward socialized medicine so fast, it'll make your head spin," Giuliani said of the debate, adding that private competition and limits on malpractice lawsuits could help bring down the cost of care. "When we want to cover poor people, as we should, we give them vouchers."
Edwards shot back Friday, saying Giuliani should focus on "serious proposals, not political attacks."
"Rudy Giuliani needs to put an end to his campaign to divide America and concentrate on offering solutions to the big challenges we face," Edwards said in a written statement.........***
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070428/NEWS/704280361/-1/State
He’s started ticking off the Dem’s platform.
Pull out of war.
Nationalized health care.
Will be interesting to watch him pick off the dem platforms on abortion rights, gay rights, gun control, amnesty, etc.
Me thinks the buck stops here. ; )
To see Rudy up on the platform with Hillary would be wild. He would demolish her whining “gov of the few demagoguery crap”.
"Yo yo yo! Off the heasy fursheasy! Dis Rudy gunna git slapped up - from the neck up! Word up! (makes pistol gesture with finger and thumb at camera). Steppin off beyotch - true dat! I'll break me off some of dat a$$ candie - shortie got hella back! Shizzle! I git you all on da Gubment Cheese! I'm out!"
How dare they actually behave like a separate party with a different set of principles! The Nerve!
I agree.
Good point.
She’ll look like the shrew she is and he’ll draw her out on her socialist views.
Ha! Where’s June Cleaver when I need her.
She's never really gotten over that ol' "Good Vs Evil" thingy.
She can’t help it. After all, she is an elite.
And she was greeting a long lost friend in that picture.
I remember Rush Limbaugh talking about the $10,000,000(plus) study the RATS did.
In 1993 dollars the additional tax burden on EACH working family member was around $700 to $750/month, a little more if you reside near a major metropolitan area due to the problematic births of the inner city poor, (crack-cocaine babies).
***...In Times Square, prostitutes and hustlers roamed the streets, vandalism was rampant, and drug sales were widespread. “Squeegee men” ripped off drivers by dumping dirty water on their car windows and charging them to clean it up. Litter, graffiti and the stench of urine were everywhere.
Adam Gopnik wrote in The New Yorker, “Hell wafted up through the manhole covers.”
Businesses suffered, and theaters began shutting down due to poor ticket sales. Those theaters that did survive often converted to adult movie houses.
“The theater district — like the Statue of Liberty and Wall Street — is a symbol of this city,” Weinberg said. “Our great fear was if you lost the theater district, you’d lose the city. People wouldn’t live here, they wouldn’t work here, they wouldn’t raise their children here.”
In response, former Mayor David Dinkins added thousands of police officers to the streets, and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani focused on community policing in which officers pursue perpetrators of less-serious crimes as a way to curb more serious ones.
But as the misdemeanor arrests began piling up, the taxed court system relied on a triage approach. Those who were arrested sometimes received a summons to appear in court 30 days later, during which they could continue perpetrating their crimes. Or, they were sent to jail and soon released with sentences of time served.
The New York State Unified Court System, the city of New York and the Fund for the City of New York, a private nonprofit group, collaborated to open the Midtown Community Court in response.
It costs the city and state $1.7 million, a figure supplemented with private donations from companies including Ford and Merck.
Now, 30 cities around the United States have replicated the court — including liberal enclaves such as Austin, Texas, and conservative ones, such as Lynchburg, Va....***
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/29/MNGI3PHO3O1.DTL
You see this is all part of a clever ruse by the democrats to make people think that Rudy’ a conservative...when in point of fact all right thinking true blue yankee doddle dandy freepers KNOW he’s a secret democrat/socialist how has infiltrated the GOP in order to destroy it from within.
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This quote from Edwards is a hoot. He gave a speech yesterday in SC saying the difficulties blacks face is due to racism and that the rich are just, well, too rich. The race card and the class envy card, back to back.
Gawd, I’ve never seen someone pay so much for clothing and still look so bad.
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