When the Laughter Died.
Hillary may have cracked up an audience of reporters and celebrities at the annual Gridiron Dinner, where she joked about Vice-President Cheney and reporter Bob Novak, but she was still recently named "America's Unfunniest Senator." Granted, the honor was bestowed by a rather unscientific and informal source - an Internet comic who posed as a ten-year old boy and wrote all 100 senators asking for their funniest joke. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R.-Maine) won the title of "America's Funniest Senator," but Hillary didn't even submit a joke to the poor, pretend little boy.
Medicare Fraud.
Sen. Clinton is leading the attack for Senate Democrats who are demanding answers from President Bush about what he knew about higher cost estimates for the Medicare prescription drug bill, and whether the cost was concealed before Congress voted on it last fall. The charge comes in the aftermath of allegations that the top Medicare actuary was threatened with firing last summer if he told members that the cost projection for the new Medicare law was $150 billion more than what the administration had been touting. Hillary said that "either the President was kept in the dark in the same way Congress was or he chose to continue using the lower figure even though he knew it was inaccurate. He needs to tell us which was the case."
Although investigations have been launched by the Department of Health and Human Services, the General Accounting Office and the House Ethics Committee, Hillary and her Democratic colleagues have also asked the Justice Department to investigate, and they also are considering a request for a special counsel. Of course, it's amusing to watch these Democrats complain about the cost of the program, especially as Hillary and her liberal co-horts probably would have preferred that the new benefit cost a trillion dollars.
T-Shirts.
Fundraisers for Sen. Clinton are about to halt production on the Marc Jacobs-designed T-shirts featuring Hillary's face, even though they say that the garments have been a "phenomenal hit." The Friends of Hillary website announced last Tuesday that the inventory of $55-$60 T-shirts had twice sold out due to "overwhelming demand." This past week was the final week to place orders at the Friends of Hillary website and at Mr. Jacob's SoHo boutique for the brightly colored T-shirts that are reminiscent of Andy Warhol's iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Chairman Mao. "We think they make great stuffers for Easter Baskets, or gifts for Mothers Day, and they're low-carb too!" the executive director of Friends of Hillary, Patti Solis Doyle, wrote in an e-mail to supporters yesterday.
It will be remembered that the T-shirts were manufactured by non-union workers, which prompted criticism from a prominent labor group. Despite the union's protest. Dov Charney, a senior partner at American Apparel, the non-organized company that made the T-shirts, said recently that the Friends of Hillary had reordered the T-shirts from the company anyway. "They investigated and told me not to worry about that, they love American Apparel," he said. "They said Sen. Clinton was aware of American Apparel and that she liked the company." According to American Apparel, the total Friends of Hillary order was 5,177 shirts, of which the company took in $16,450.85, or roughly $3 a T-shirt. That also meant roughly more than $280,000 in revenue for Hillary's campaign, plus all the free advertising from people sporting Mrs. Clinton's visage on their chest.
Vote Update.
Hillary went against the opinion of the vast majority of Americans when she voted against the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act," a bill that charges a violent thug with two separate crimes for attacking a pregnant woman and harming her unborn child. Twenty-nine states already have such laws, and recent polls indicate that well over 75% of Americans believe that when a criminal attacks a pregnant woman and kills or injures her unborn child, he should be charged with two offenses. Yet Hillary chose to listen to groups like NATAL and Planned Parenthood, who think Roe v. Wade is under attack from this humane, common sense legislation. Fortunately, 61 of Hillary's colleagues thought better of the legislation and cast their votes in favor of the bill.
