Tag: Hillary Clinton

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Sanders Is In!

 

Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Case Involving Donor Limits To Political CampaignsAnd you thought Hillary had bought off all her potential rivals. Apparently there is one man who will not be bought:

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will announce his plans to seek the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday, presenting a liberal challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Yesterday evening I finally exceeded my threshold of consuming unhealthy doses of deceit and dishonesty. When that happens, well, I get a bit edgy and curse at my television and call certain politicians, celebrities or pundits liars, idiots, buffoons, or worse. In the last few days, I’ve had my fill of the lies and excuses for […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. About Those Smoking Guns

 

In January, Robert F. McDonnell, 71st governor of Virginia, was sentenced to two years in prison followed by two years of supervised release after his conviction on 11 counts of public corruption. He, and especially his wife, behaved badly. But it’s worth taking a closer look at what was considered criminal in McDonnell’s case, because, at least so far, some in the press are suggesting that Hillary Clinton’s conduct must meet a much higher threshold to be considered problematic.

When ABC’s George Stephanopoulos interviewed Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash on Sunday, Stephanopoulos played the informal role of Clinton defense attorney. Skipping right over the truly squalid appearance of conflict of interest inherent in the Clinton Foundation accepting contributions from nations and firms having business before the State Department while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, Stephanopoulos focused only on law breaking. “Do you have any evidence that a crime may have been committed?” he demanded. When Schweizer said he thought the material he, the New York Times, and others unearthed certainly merited further investigation, Stephanopoulos jumped on it: “But a criminal investigation? . . . Is there a smoking gun?”

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One of the most common posts and discussion threads on Ricochet is “Who Can Beat Hillary?” While there are many great candidates in the Republican ranks, there is only one person that would beat Hillary like a 69-year-old bag of Rose Law Firm billing records: Bruce Jenner! Preview Open

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Hillary: “Deep-seated Cultural Codes, Religious Beliefs… Have to be Changed”

 

Screen Shot 2015-04-24 at 3.07.09 PMThursday night, Hillary Clinton was the keynote speaker at the Women in the World Summit. The annual event, created by editrix Tina Brown, brings “women leaders, activists and political change-makers from around the world to share their stories, and offer solutions to building a better life for women and girls.” Perusing the topics, it’s three days of “sustainability,” “self-esteem,” and “safe spaces” — i.e., goo-goo platitudes to make upper-middle-class attendees feel better about themselves while accomplishing nothing.

Clinton’s speech was the usual bloodless shrug of support for women who have been victimized by mean men, bad governments, and an unfair world. But halfway through the pabulum, Hillary made a statement that is raising more than a few eyebrows.

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It is said the end of the Nixon presidency came about when GOP elders Sen. Barry Goldwater, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, and House Minority Leader John Rhodes went to Nixon and told him it was over. If these allegations against Hillary can be sufficiently substantiated, is there anyone on the Democrat side with the […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Hillary’s Day of Wrath

 

Hillary-Clinton-angry3Today was a very bad day for Hillary Clinton. This time it wasn’t about logos or burritos, but rather uranium, foreign affairs, and serious corruption. The New York Times published an exposé on ties between the Clintons and a sketchy deal that left Vladimir Putin in control of a significant portion of America’s uranium; uranium it can now sell to Iran and other bad actors in the world.

You can read the 4,500-word Times article or watch the nine-minute-long summary produced by Fox News, but here’s a simplified tick-tock of the deal:

  • In September 2005, Bill Clinton traveled to Kazakhstan and met his friend Frank Giustra (pronounced joo-strah), who wanted to buy uranium mines there.
  • Clinton gave a press conference with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in which he endorsed the leader’s human rights record and democratic progress, even though he had just received 91% of the vote in an allegedly rigged election. The event was a public relations coup for Nazarbayev.
  • A couple of days later, Kazakhstan gave Giustra the uranium concessions he requested.
  • Giustra then donated $31 million to the Clinton Foundation with a promise of $100 million more to follow.

The Westinghouse Deal

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Coming on the heels of today’s New York Times story is the Fox one-hour documentary (to air tomorrow evening 10:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Pacific) exploring the millions of dollars that were funneled into the Clinton Foundation (but not reported to the Obama administration) from those seeking to have a deal approved by the State Department and other high-level […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Why Does Hillary Clinton Want to ‘Topple’ Americans Making $346,000 a Year?

 

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Oh, Piketty and Saez, what you have wrought? From the New York Times:

In a meeting with economists this year, Mrs. Clinton intensely studied a chart that showed income inequality in the United States. The graph charted how real wages, adjusted for inflation, had increased exponentially for the wealthiest Americans, making the bar so steep it hardly fit on the chart. Mrs. Clinton pointed at the top category and said the economy required a “toppling” of the wealthiest 1 percent, according to several people who were briefed on Mrs. Clinton’s policy discussions but could not discuss private conversations for attribution.

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. In Which This Dartmouth Man’s Heartbeat Quickens

 

27C4C69E00000578-3046586-image-a-2_1429513676931From the British newspaper, the Daily Mail. The reporter may overstate the political influence of these undergrads — goodness knows nobody ever accused us of affecting presidential politics when I attended the place 35 years go, although, come to think of it, I did have chats with Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan’s campaign manager — but of course that’s not the point. The point is that Dartmouth students have Hillary’s number.

(Would students at Yale display the same healthy and called-for dubiety? I think not, but I leave the question to Rob.)

If Dartmouth College students have the same inflated influence on presidential politics that they’ve traditionally enjoyed, Hillary Clinton has some long days ahead in New Hampshire.

Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. Estate Taxes And the (Clinton) Family Business

 

Hillary-MoneyTimothy Carney of the Washington Examiner recently wrote:

The Clintons may be stupid-rich, but they aren’t stupid—they’re using estate-planning techniques to avoid the estate tax. Bloomberg News reported in 2014 that the Clinton family home has been divided, for tax purposes, into two shares, and those shares have been placed in a special trust that will shield Chelsea from having to pay the estate tax on the full value of the home when she inherits it. Also, the Clintons have created a life insurance trust—a common tool wealthy people use to provide liquidity for heirs to pay the estate tax.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. A Challenge for Hillary Clinton: Return to a JFK Growth Agenda

 

JFK 2_0When John F. Kennedy was elected president he surprised both Democrats and Republicans with a bold tax-cutting plan to solve the problem of a moribund economy. He had campaigned on “getting the country moving again,” and had set a 5 percent economic-growth target, but he never specified how he was going to do it. Then he opened everyone’s eyes with a plan to lower marginal tax rates across-the-board.

JFK’s advisors proposed a traditional Democratic approach: temporary targeted tax cuts. But Kennedy insisted on lower tax rates that would create much higher rewards for work, saving, and investment. And Kennedy argued that his lower tax-rate incentives would so expand the economy that after a few years his tax cuts would pay for themselves.

He was right.

Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. If Hillary Is Your Champion, You Don’t Need An Adversary

 

mao_suitIn a normal world, the very thought of the person who sat idly by while four Americans were besieged and murdered at one of our embassies now wanting to be our “champion” would cause every heart in the country to go into immediate arrest. Unhappily, the world is no longer normal, leaving a small and regrettable percentage of the American electorate who will now invite the Inspector Clouseau of American politics to minister to their whims and desires. But, to be sure, they won’t be the same people who learned from experience the pitfalls of placing their hopes and trust in Hillary Clinton.

“Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion,” announced the person who looked upon the wreckage and misery that accompanied her husband’s serial sexual abuse of “everyday Americans” and decided to attack his victims. According to the Daily Mail, Bill Clinton’s infamous wagging finger and the “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” whopper was orchestrated at the direction of Hillary, who took the wrong side in the real War on Women. Remarking — when she returned to the White House following her “vast Right wing conspiracy” television interview — that “I guess that will teach them to [expletive] with us.” Except that it wasn’t “them [expletive-ing] with,” the Clintons, but rather the Clintons [expletive-ing] with them!

But the War on Women can be fickle after all, as Kathleen Willey — another of Bill’s Fondle U. alumna — observed when she said of Hillary “The point is what this woman is capable of doing to other women while she’s running a campaign basically on women’s issues.” Then again, what difference at this point does it make?

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Not Toast Yet

 

Hindenburg-disasterI am not ready yet to say that Hillary is toast. But when the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, whose ideology (if you can call it that) hews as much toward Clintonian centrism as that of any prominent member of the liberal punditocracy, writes:

You seem like an annoyed queen, radiating irritation at anyone who tries to hold you accountable.

then something is amiss.

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Small and intimate or staged from the get go? It seems that Hillary Clinton has so little confidence in her ability to connect with “real people” she says that she speaks for, that she has to bus them in to her carefully staged appearances on the campaign trail. Preview Open

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In a previous post about the Presumptive Rightful Heir to the Democratic Throne and her latest thrilling adventure (was it titled “Hillary Clinton and the Raiders of the Not-Too-Spicy Burrito Bowl”?), Ricochet member, Skarv, offered this absurd idea: “Suggest we focus our criticism of Hillary Clinton on policy rather than trivia.” Since the Mainstream Media […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Same Old(er) Hillary

 

The six-year house party the activist left has been having with the country is coming to an end — and they know it. The death rattle for the antagonistic left began as soon as Wall Street grandmother Hillary Clinton announced her run for the presidency.

When a candidate is nominated for President, the party no longer drags them to their position; instead, it automatically becomes the party of that candidate. That’s why you see Bill de Blasio, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren all curbing their enthusiasm. The moment Hillary accepts the nomination, their electoral talking points are for the most part rendered benign — the party becomes a Clinton party again. They also know the same dirty secret the rest of the country knows: Hillary can’t run on class warfare and pop-socialism. Democrats understand that any time Hillary plays class warrior, she falls over her gold-plated walker and hits her Life Alert for the media to bail her out.

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The “Chipotle Episode” illustrates just how far off the rails the Hillary campaign is already. She tweets her “woman of the people video” on Sunday and less than a day later she’s made herself virtually incognito at the order counter at Chipotle. What does that tell you about the “most recognizable woman in the world” […]

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I originally posted this at mightstainyourshirt.com.: “I don’t want to repeat my innocence.” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. “I want the pleasure of losing it again.” Preview Open

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