Quoteable, Notable: Why No Vaccine?

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Why There Isn't Enough Vaccine

As always, follow the money ...

KILLING US WITH LAWSUITS

"In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States had 26 vaccine manufacturers. Now we are down to just four. . . . The explanation is politicians and trial lawyers. Drug companies can't make profits from producing vaccines any longer because of product liability lawsuits. . . . (T)he trial bar has destroyed a critical medical industry.

"Congress has the power to fix this crisis. Why hasn't it? The reason is the trial lawyers' massive political clout. . . . The trial lawyers are the No. 1 special interest contributor to the Democratic Party, and to many Republican candidates too. This year lawyers have donated some $100 million to federal candidates."

- Steve Moore, president, Club for Growth

The Quote This Week That Says It All

Liberals Stretch for Justification of Their Existence.

Wethinks Geraldine Ferraro, once a candidate for Vice-President of the United States, really stretches for this piece of nonsense.

"You know what? Just let me make one point. You were talking about the map before. If indeed all those blue states all got together and seceded from the union, think what would be left for those red states, nothing. There would be no educational system. You would have nothing. What would be left to you? I mean, where is all of this talent in this country? It's on both sides, the Northeast corridor."

-Geraldine Ferraro to Sean Hannity on Hannity and Colmes, November 6.

The red state would have no educational system? Damn, the Congo has an educational system and it's not a red state.

Bill Richardson-The Toad to Nowhere

Myself never liked oily Bill Richardson, current Governor of New Mexico and political opportunist of the utmost. I first knew this man when he was the US ambassador to the UN and was called upon to get none other than Monica Lewinsky a job. He jumped through Clinton hoops and sold his soul. Now he's not even a little frog in a big pond.

"Yet New Mexicans sent their electoral college votes to re-elect George W. Bush. Every Democrat leader in the country was depending on Bill Richardson...to deliver the state to Kerry. He didn't get it done. It looks to me like Richardson is political toast - the state he has been using for 25 years as his stepping stone to national office just turned into a lily pad, and it won't support a frog anywhere near his size."

- Former New Mexico GOP Chairman John Dendahl