But there is hope, if only we cared as much as do the French. Tonight, the French way. Her French experience tonight, in her own words. For them, children are a priority. In all the talk of crisis and affordability ABC, CBS and NBC ignored obvious points that a conservative could have raised if they had bothered to ask.
Government regulations impede good child care options.
Local zoning laws, for instance, often bar child care in homes and even if allowed burdensome rules about provider training and licenses deter many a potential care-giver. And concerns about church and state often prevent poorer families from being able to take advantage of church or synagogue subsidized day care centers. I had intended to run the questions posed Thursday morning on Today, GMA and This Morning to Hillary Clinton, but this CyberAlert is already very long, so I'll put those in the next edition. Suffice it to say, she wasn't grilled. Instead, other than one question, every inquiry from Katie Couric, Lisa McRee and Jane Robelot were nice softballs.