Conservative Drug Split

[RS Davis]

[glow=red,2,300]Edward H. Crane & Roger Pilon Wrote:[/glow]The prescription-drug-reimportation bill the House passed in the wee hours last Friday morning, by a vote of 243 to 186, was widely opposed by the thoughtful Right — folks at AEI, CEI, the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, the Club for Growth, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, even Cato's own Doug Bandow in last Thursday's NRO. When we saw, however, that principled members of the House like Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) and Pat Toomey (R., Penn.) were on the other side, we thought we'd take a closer look. It turns out that this really is one of those issues that's as simple as it seems — free trade is the answer — although it's easy to be distracted by the complications that surround it. And that, unfortunately, appears to be what's happened to many of our friends and colleagues.

- Rick