Hillary had better learn to pace herself for 2008
Talk about diarrhea of the mouth.
Remember just the other day when Mrs. Clinton appeared to tack to the center on abortion by urging her party to find "common ground" with abortion opponents? Well, that gesture had a short shelf life.
There has been an increase in the number of abortions in eight states, and it's all President Bush's fault, says pro-abortion Senator Hillary Clinton.
Speaking at a pro-abortion rally in Washington attended by about 1,000 abortion advocates, while hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers marched to protest abortion, the wife of the president who vetoed a ban on partial-birth abortion charged that President Bush has caused an increase in abortions because he is not fully funding family planning programs.
Hillary claims family planning decreases the number of abortions.
In reality, of course, "family planning" is a code word for abortion on demand. Something that "facts and evidence and common sense" bear out:
Clinton has claimed that during her husband's administration, "we saw the rate of abortion consistently fall."
"The abortion rate fell by one-quarter between 1990 and 1995, the steepest decline since Roe was decided in 1973," Clinton told a conference of the Family Planning Advocates of New York. "The rate fell another 11% between 1994 and 2000."
But the statistics she cited were based on numbers that Dr. Randy O'Bannon, director of education at the National Right to Life Committee, says come from a flawed study conducted by a researcher who used faulty data to survey the rise or fall of abortions during the Bush Administration.
Glen Harold Stassen, a professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, released the politically charged study just before the presidential elections, according to LifeNews.com.
LifeNews reported that Stassen claimed abortions increased in 11 of 16 states, and assumed abortions must be on the rise nationwide.
Stassen also reportedly used wrong figures in several states – sometimes using old stats and, in South Dakota, using the birth rate instead of the number of abortions.
Stassen wrongly averaged the 17.4% decline to say that abortions decreased at the same 1.7% rate every year during the '90s, LifeNews.com argued.
Since Clinton was in office during most of the 1990s, that would give him bragging rights to the abortion decrease. But Dr. O'Bannon said the rate of decline was higher in the first President Bush's years in office and slowed during the Clinton years.
"In Clinton's last year in office, the decline was not 1.7%, but just 0.1%," O'Bannon explained.
So did Mrs. Clinton simply "not have her facts straight," or was she LYING? Whichever it is, we can be confident that she doesn't care one way or the other.
The same veracitical indiscretion was on display in her comments over the weekend that the economy will "collapse" unless the American people "learn to make economic sacrifices":
"I think the economy is standing on a trap door, and I don't know that we necessarily hold the levers," she told an audience at West Palm Beach's Kravis Center.
In quotes picked up by the Bradenton Herald, she complained, "The history of America is ... to make sacrifices today for a better tomorrow. The progress that then occurred moved everyone forward."
Clinton delivered her dire economic warning on the heels of attending Donald Trump's lavish Palm Beach wedding to Melania Knauss, where she rubbed shoulders with the upper crust in the ballroom of Trump's Mara Lago mansion, modeled after the Versailles Palace ballroom.
But an afternoon spent reveling with the likes of Katie Couric, Star Jones, Barbara Walters and Denise Rich didn't dull Mrs. Clinton's concerns about Bush Administration profligacy.
"I don't see that thoughtful, visionary direction that got us where we are today," the former first lady complained.
Well, heaven knows the Bush Administration has done little or nothing to reign in federal spending - although that may be about to change. But is spending discipline what Mrs. Clinton was really referring to? Not a chance.
After blasting the President for the exploding national debt, the top Democrat boasted that his predecessor - her husband - "did it just right."
"The deficit reduction act didn't get one single Republican vote. He took on the gun lobby with the Brady bill. He took on health care," she declared.
Ah - Mr. Bill's three biggest (policy-related) debacles. So in order to keep the economy from "collapsing," President Bush should...raise taxes! But yet Social Security is just fine! Wow! Who can argue with that level of "facts and evidence and common sense"?
Even Hillary! will have a devil of a time trying to sell that statist chestnut.
Remember just the other day when Mrs. Clinton appeared to tack to the center on abortion by urging her party to find "common ground" with abortion opponents? Well, that gesture had a short shelf life.
There has been an increase in the number of abortions in eight states, and it's all President Bush's fault, says pro-abortion Senator Hillary Clinton.
Speaking at a pro-abortion rally in Washington attended by about 1,000 abortion advocates, while hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers marched to protest abortion, the wife of the president who vetoed a ban on partial-birth abortion charged that President Bush has caused an increase in abortions because he is not fully funding family planning programs.
Hillary claims family planning decreases the number of abortions.
In reality, of course, "family planning" is a code word for abortion on demand. Something that "facts and evidence and common sense" bear out:
Clinton has claimed that during her husband's administration, "we saw the rate of abortion consistently fall."
"The abortion rate fell by one-quarter between 1990 and 1995, the steepest decline since Roe was decided in 1973," Clinton told a conference of the Family Planning Advocates of New York. "The rate fell another 11% between 1994 and 2000."
But the statistics she cited were based on numbers that Dr. Randy O'Bannon, director of education at the National Right to Life Committee, says come from a flawed study conducted by a researcher who used faulty data to survey the rise or fall of abortions during the Bush Administration.
Glen Harold Stassen, a professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, released the politically charged study just before the presidential elections, according to LifeNews.com.
LifeNews reported that Stassen claimed abortions increased in 11 of 16 states, and assumed abortions must be on the rise nationwide.
Stassen also reportedly used wrong figures in several states – sometimes using old stats and, in South Dakota, using the birth rate instead of the number of abortions.
Stassen wrongly averaged the 17.4% decline to say that abortions decreased at the same 1.7% rate every year during the '90s, LifeNews.com argued.
Since Clinton was in office during most of the 1990s, that would give him bragging rights to the abortion decrease. But Dr. O'Bannon said the rate of decline was higher in the first President Bush's years in office and slowed during the Clinton years.
"In Clinton's last year in office, the decline was not 1.7%, but just 0.1%," O'Bannon explained.
So did Mrs. Clinton simply "not have her facts straight," or was she LYING? Whichever it is, we can be confident that she doesn't care one way or the other.
The same veracitical indiscretion was on display in her comments over the weekend that the economy will "collapse" unless the American people "learn to make economic sacrifices":
"I think the economy is standing on a trap door, and I don't know that we necessarily hold the levers," she told an audience at West Palm Beach's Kravis Center.
In quotes picked up by the Bradenton Herald, she complained, "The history of America is ... to make sacrifices today for a better tomorrow. The progress that then occurred moved everyone forward."
Clinton delivered her dire economic warning on the heels of attending Donald Trump's lavish Palm Beach wedding to Melania Knauss, where she rubbed shoulders with the upper crust in the ballroom of Trump's Mara Lago mansion, modeled after the Versailles Palace ballroom.
But an afternoon spent reveling with the likes of Katie Couric, Star Jones, Barbara Walters and Denise Rich didn't dull Mrs. Clinton's concerns about Bush Administration profligacy.
"I don't see that thoughtful, visionary direction that got us where we are today," the former first lady complained.
Well, heaven knows the Bush Administration has done little or nothing to reign in federal spending - although that may be about to change. But is spending discipline what Mrs. Clinton was really referring to? Not a chance.
After blasting the President for the exploding national debt, the top Democrat boasted that his predecessor - her husband - "did it just right."
"The deficit reduction act didn't get one single Republican vote. He took on the gun lobby with the Brady bill. He took on health care," she declared.
Ah - Mr. Bill's three biggest (policy-related) debacles. So in order to keep the economy from "collapsing," President Bush should...raise taxes! But yet Social Security is just fine! Wow! Who can argue with that level of "facts and evidence and common sense"?
Even Hillary! will have a devil of a time trying to sell that statist chestnut.
posted by JASmius at 11:12 AM
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