Gingrich doubts GOP victory

Newt Gingrich said yesterday any Republican will have a tough time winning the White House next year because even Republicans are down on their party.
"To win in 2008, Republicans will have to make a clean break" from failures in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and border security, the former House speaker said.
The Republican Party's presidential candidate has to be willing to stand up and say, "Katrina didn't work," Mr. Gingrich told reporters over breakfast at the Hay-Adams Hotel, a block from the White House.
"If we nominate anyone who hasn't done that, [we] have very little likelihood to win," he said.
He spoke of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as the likely Democratic standard-bearer.
"It is wrong to make this a personality problem [because President] Bush can't change the federal bureaucracy — the Congress has to do that," he said at one point, then added:
"Senator Clinton's goal this year should be to pass fundamental personnel reform with Bush because when she becomes president — if she becomes president — she is going to find she has all the same crippling systems that Bush has had."
But Mr. Gingrich also said Mr. Bush's "stay the course" approach to the Iraq war won't work, and that the United States should be smarter and more unpredictable in managing the conflict, which he said is merely a "battle in the larger war against the irreconcilable wing of Islam."

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Clinton Readies Her U.S. Health Plan as Pitfalls Loom

Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton, offering a new prescription for providing all Americans with health-care insurance, is seeking to avoid a repeat of her first, failed bid to revamp the system.
While Democratic presidential rivals John Edwards and Barack Obama released health-care plans several months ago, the issue is more complex for the senator from New York.
Clinton's previous effort gives her a voice of authority on health-care coverage now, with 65 percent of Americans in a July Gallup poll expressing ``a great deal'' or ``a fair amount'' of confidence in her on the issue. That's more than any other White House contender. At the same time, it evokes memories of the bureaucracy-laden, 1,342-page proposal that critics still call ``Hillarycare.''
``It's very tricky for her,'' said Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ``But she's not going to get elected president unless she can get through to people on health care,'' said Bob Laszewski, a Washington health policy analyst.
Labor unions, an important Democratic constituency, have demanded that the candidates offer specifics on the issue, which put Clinton in a particular bind.
Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, said Clinton will offer a universal plan after taking care to lay the groundwork for it and head off comparisons with her 1993 health-plan debacle.

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I am very interested read Senator Clinton's proposal. I support a health care plan that covers everybody in the U.S.. Most conservatives in the U.S. would disagree with me, as most conservatives believe that the government should not pay for peoples insurance. Some Democrats are the same, but to an extent.