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...dollars, up at night (Ambien, anyone?). Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising by pharmaceutical companies has always been somewhat controversial. The U.S. is one of only two countries that permit it (New Zealand is the other). Critics claim that these advertisements encourage consumers to seek out overly expensive brand-name drugs from doctors. Their symptoms might not require such medications, and when they do, cheaper generic drugs may be available. Such marketing probably drives up overall health-care costs. More important, new drugs that are aggressively marketed can pose a safety risk. Merck's heavy promotion of pain reliever Vioxx - look...
Daschle, for instance, was a high-paid "policy adviser" at Alston & Bird, a lobbying firm with dozens of brand-name pharmaceutical and health-services clients. "Senator Daschle focuses his services on advising the firm's clients on issues related to all aspects of public policy," boasts the firm's website. One of Alston's clients, EduCap, a nonprofit student-loan company that spent six figures lobbying to change federal loan laws, took Daschle on two cushy overseas trips, one to the Bahamas for a board meeting and another to the Middle East to meet with foreign leaders...
...Tuesday morning, it became apparent that the storm was only intensifying, and Daschle, recognizing the change in the political winds, withdrew his name from consideration for the Cabinet post. Several editorial pages - including the New York Times's - had called on him to withdraw. And there was a new allegation, reported by Politico, that Daschle had recommended the very businessman who had supplied him with the car service for two Cabinet posts in the Obama Administration. As one close adviser put it, the case for Daschle had "appreciably deteriorated from 24 hours ago." (See who's who in Obama...
...decision to withdraw his name was Daschle's alone, the adviser said, adding, "The President was fine, was more than ready to hang tough on this." But Daschle had begun to realize that even though he probably would prevail in the end and win Senate confirmation, it would come at great cost to the Obama Administration...
...coming on the heels of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's failure to pay nearly $40,000 in taxes, Daschle's nomination was turning into fodder for political opponents and late-night comedians. It didn't help matters that on Tuesday morning, another Obama appointee, Nancy Killefer, withdrew her name from consideration for the position of chief White House performance officer amid reports that she had failed to pay unemployment taxes for household help in the District of Columbia...