[okie01]

"Its about time the republican grew up and stopped blaming every bad thing on the Clintons...the Clintons were scum, no doubt, but bush has been in office for 3 years, and the republicans have controlled both houses for over 1 year now; if they had wanted to do something about this flu vaccination "problem", they could have. What did the Clintons do, that the current congress and president could not have undone if they so desired?"

Can't help but ask, but have you ever been asked to take over a grossly mismanaged company and turn it around?

It is a time-consuming process -- even in medium-sized companies. Given the massiveness of the federal government and the unwieldiness of a political bureacracy (as opposed to a commercial enterprise) we're looking at a decade -- just to identify all the problems, much less do something about each.

And, then, a full generation to actually turn it around...

In that sense, Limbaugh, Limbacher and the WSJ are precisely correct: The vaccine shortage does trace to the early attempts to enforce "Clinton Care".

And, if anybody had seen this coming, say, two or three years ago, something might've been done about it by now.

But, for the past two years, the administration has been distracted by other concerns. Remember the War on Terror?

Your point about the media, though, is apt. The number of deaths to date is comparatively a tempest in a teapot.

[snopercod]

This vaccine shortage is right out of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, only she used railroads, not the pharmaceutical industry, as an example of the results government meddling.

The men of the railroad and of the mine stopped in dazed bewilderment: They found that in all the complexity of their equipment, among the drills, the motors, the derricks, the delicate gauges, the ponderous floodlights beating down into the pits and ridges of a mountain – there was no wire to mend the crane. They stopped, like men on an ocean liner propelled by ten-thousand-horsepower generators, but perishing for lack of a safety pin.

The Clinton/Kennedy "Childhood Immunization Initiative" must be repealed.