Hillary Watch

HILL HELPS CASEY, JR., AGAIN. Recently Hillary was in Chicago, where she helped pro-life Democratic candidate for the Senate Bob Casey raise campaign funds for his race against incumbent Sen. Rick Santorum (R.-Pa.). The staunchly pro-choice Mrs. Clinton was the featured attraction at a $500-a-ticket reception for Casey's bid to unseat Santorum. Hillary's PAC had already given Casey's campaign $10,000, a move for which she was roundly criticized by her feminist friends. But nevertheless, Sen. Clinton is proud of her huge donation to Casey, and continues to pull out all the stops to defeat her GOP colleague. Santorum's campaign downplayed the event, saying, "While Rick Santorum is teaming up with folks like Rudy Giuliani and John McCain to help with his re-election, Bobby casey is skipping work to campaign with the likes of Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean. We'll take that match-up any time."

NO SECOND TERM FOR MS. PREZ. It was recently reported that ABC's "Commander-in-Chief" is about to be cancelled due to low ratings. If true, this ends the feminist dream of a woman President, at least the Hollywood version. "No one here will say publicly that it's over," said an L.A. inside source, "But it is over." The network gave the show more than its fair share of opportunities to succeed, and even put it on a lengthy hiatus to give it a chance to get its act together, but to no avail. Despite its short run, Geena Davis, who played President Mackenzie Alien, managed to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her portrayal as America's first female President. Of course, everyone in America knew that the show was tailor-made for a possible Hillary presidency, especially since Mrs. Clinton's long-time social secretary Capricia Marshall and her former communications director Steve Cohen were prominent advisers on the show. Back when the show debuted in September 2005, feminist author Naomi Wolf noted that Hillary "must have good friends in Hollywood, because the new Woman-is-President drama, 'Commander-in-Chief,' could not have come at a better time-or in a better form-to pave the way for her possible ascension to the Oval office in 2008." The creator of the show, Rod Lurie, said, "If Hillary Clinton should get the [2008 presidential] nomination, we're all taking credit." Ironically, the program's first episode back from its time off is about the President's husband groping an intern. Wonder where they got that idea?

IT'S THE ECONOMY, HILLARY! Earlier this week Sen. Clinton gave what some consider a presidential candidate-type address at the Economic Club of Chicago. She blasted the Bush Administration's tendency to run up huge budget deficits that weaken the dollar, leaving us beholden to lender countries like China. Said Hill: "The most basic aspect of infrastructure is getting our economic fundamentals right so that businesses have the level playing field they need to compete. Instead, we're running the largest budget deficits in our nation's history, and we've become the world's largest debtor nation." Meanwhile, she was careful to point out that her husband left the presidency with record budget surpluses that have since turned into record deficits. She did not mention, however, how her husband left the country headed toward recession or how President Clinton never had to worry about fighting a costly Cold War or an expensive War on Terror. Nor did she note how she has fallen woefully short of her 2000 campaign promise to create 200,000 new jobs in upstate New York (by at least 240,000). Sen. Clinton claimed that the strong Clinton economy of the 1990s was keyed by deficitreduction policies, saying that "is why I support pay-as-you-go budget rules that would ensure more discipline as we approach both spending and tax cuts." In an earlier interview with Al Hunt, Hillary had to admit that "the economy is working really well for many people. And the indicators at the present time ... are positive," but added that "if you look just over the horizon and below the surface there are some troubling issues." She says that "our failure to get health care costs under control, our failure to have a real energy policy, our fiscal position going into these huge deficits, increasing debt, raising our debt limits, our trade deficit" are raising some "yellow flags, if not some red ones." But Hillary's solution would be to mandate more government regulation in areas such as health care and energy costs instead of allowing the free market to create more opportunities and keep costs down.

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