posted July 21, 2015 10:01 AM            

Then, someone on Hillary's staff answers the phony question...under Hillary's name!

Oh, but you're not supposed to know that. You're supposed to think these are real American voters asking Hillary questions...and getting answered by Hillary!

This would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. Hillary would say being exposed as a phony is just a tactic of the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"!

July 21, 2015
Hillary planning 'Wizard of Oz' presidency with anonymous chat press conferences
Newsmachete

Remember the scene in The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy is talking to the fearsome Oz, only to realize that it is just an ordinary person behind a curtain? That's what I thought when I read about Hillary Clinton's "Facebook chat." Questions were asked, and answers were given, but the answers in many cases were so long and contrived as to seem highly unlikely to have come from Mrs. Clinton's hands:

Korinayo Thompson: Hello Hillary! You discussed accountability on Wall Street in last week's speech. It seems like we're constantly seeing stories in the news about misconduct on Wall Street, but no one is ever held accountable. What would you do to change it?

Hillary Clinton: A good - and timely - question. Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of Dodd-Frank - the law passed to deal with the problems on Wall Street that led to the financial crisis. It's been under constant attack from Republicans in Congress ever since. As president, I'll defend Dodd-Frank - and I'll go beyond. You're right - we have work to do to enhance accountability. We've all heard the shocking stories of misconduct by individuals and institutions in the financial industry. And even though some institutions have paid fines and even admitted guilt, too often it seems like the people responsible get off with limited consequences (or none at all). Even when they’ve already pocketed the gains. That's wrong and it has to change. Last week, I pledged to prosecute individuals as well as firms when they commit fraud or other criminal wrongdoing - because no one is "too big to jail." I’ll be laying out my Wall Street agenda in more detail soon. But here are three more examples of the kinds of things we can do: 1 - Appoint and empower tough, independent-minded regulators and give them the resources they need to do their jobs. 2 - Make sure that good people have real incentives to come forward and report illegal activity by raising the whistleblower caps so they're actually effective. 3 - Make sure that when corporations pay fines to the government for wrongdoing, those fines cut into the bonuses of the executives who should have been accountable or should have caught the problem. Give people a reason to improve the culture of their firms. You'll hear more about these proposals in the next few weeks so stay tuned! -H

Now, come on – does anyone believe that Hillary Clinton really typed all that? It shows her total ignorance of how chat really works. No one writes such long messages in chats; it's simply not realistic to sit down and type so much in one message.

Which raises the question: who really wrote the message above? Almost certainly not Hillary Clinton. She's not capable of delivering such long and detailed messages. Given the anonymous nature of online chatting, we really have no idea who actually responded to those questions. It is exactly like The Wizard of Oz, where Hillary's fearsome photo represents Oz, and we have no idea who is hiding behind the curtain.

Hillary has been notorious about avoiding the press and tough questions. If she is elected president, do you think this will be the press conference of the future, where questions are simply submitted online (probably many of them sock puppet questions submitted by her own staff) and answered online by an unidentified person writing under Hillary's photo? More ominously, do you think we will see a presidency where Hillary is not seen for weeks or months at a time, available only via an online photo that will answer questions written by someone in the White House?

posted July 26, 2015 08:14 AM            

Still, leftist loons want this lying, inept, incompetent, corrupt woman to be President of the United States.

July 26, 2015
Hillary's web of lies keeps unraveling
Daniel John Sobieski

Such is the self-absorbed arrogance of the Clintons that Hillary actually thought she could get away with the criminal activity of conducting her government business on a personal server and keeping and transmitting classified data in violation of federal law.

It was a server as vulnerable to foreign hacking as any in the private sector that has been hacked, or the servers at the foreign-hacked Office of Personnel Management. She put her country at risk, and now her personal political ambitions as well. Only the disinterested Justice Department of the administration she served and a sycophantic press will save her from the incarceration she so richly deserves.

Inspectors general of the State Department Hillary once ran said Friday that, contrary to the statements of Hillary and Team Clinton, information that was classified then and now was kept on her server – the server she refuses to turn over. So far, four emails in particular are at issue, found in a random examination of 40 sample emails. The four were discovered to have dealt with government secrets. How many in the 30,000 Hillary and her staff deleted also illegally contained government secrets?

As the New York Times reported:

“This classified information never should have been transmitted via an unclassified personal system,” Steve A. Linick, the State Department inspector general, said in a statement signed by him and I. Charles McCullough III, the inspector general for the intelligence community. ...

The discovery of the four emails prompted Mr. McCullough to refer the matter to F.B.I. counterintelligence agents, who investigate crimes related to the mishandling of classified information. On Thursday night and again Friday morning, the Justice Department referred to the matter as a “criminal referral,” but later Friday dropped the word “criminal.” The inspectors general said late Friday that it was a “security referral” intended to alert authorities that “classified information may exist on at least one private server and thumb drive that are not in the government’s possession.”

Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire. “Slick” is a word that will never appear in front of Hillary’s name, as it often did in front of her husband’s. Bill Clinton was a consummate politician. Hillary is an ambitious hanger-on who ignored her husband’s indiscretions and handled his “bimbo eruptions” in order to ride his coattails to a position of prominence and power. She has blundered her way into a criminal referral, which ought to disqualify any candidate for high office, particularly when it is the presidency.

Hillary is a consummate liar, whose relationship with the truth is tenuous. She lied to the parents of the four Benghazi dead in front of their sons’ caskets, repeating the infamous video lie she arguably was the architect of. She dodged sniper fire in Bosnia; she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary years before he climbed Mt. Everest; she claimed she made $100,000 in the futures market almost literally overnight just from reading the Wall Street Journal.

As Investor’s Business Daily has opined, the lady in waiting dubbed “Hillary Rodham Nixon” refused to learn from a history she was personally involved in and may be condemned to repeat. But, unlike Hillary and her emails, Nixon didn’t destroy the tapes that would doom his presidency:

Hillary Clinton should know better, know that the cover-up is often worse than any crime, foe she once worked as a member of the impeachment inquiry staff for the House Judiciary Committee investigating the “third-rate burglary” at the Watergate Hotel that doomed Richard Nixon’s presidency.

The end came when tapes of presidential conversations were found and became public knowledge with one tape containing that famous 18 1’2 gap of erased silence that spoke volumes about the cover-up of the break-in at DNC headquarters.

As RNC Chair Reince Preibus notes, as Richard Nixon’s claim, “I am not a crook,” unraveled it was due to the fact that he did destroy those tapes when he could have. Maybe it was vanity, stubbornness or just garden variety stupid arrogance, but he didn’t burn them or wipe them clean, even if it might have saved his presidency.

As Shannen W. Coffinn points out in National Review, the Federal Records Act and the State Department’s own rules prohibit Hillary from keeping official government emails on her personal server, and destruction of records under subpoena also constitutes obstruction of justice. And if she signed form OF-109, which she should have done or been asked to do, she committed perjury:

As Shannen W. Coffin, a contributing editor at National Review and senior lawyer at both the White House and Justice Department under President George W. Bush, points out, a provision titled "Removal Procedures" requires departing federal employees to relinquish any classified materials at the time of departure and to clear the removal through records-management officials. ...

She doesn't get to return 55,000 pages of documents nearly impossible to search years later. That she returned these materials in paper form, not an electronically searchable form, is a deliberate attempt to slow down and obstruct any investigation.

If an employee violates the terms of the Form OF-109 she or he has signed, that act is punishable by Section 18 U.S.C. § 1001 of the criminal code, which makes it a crime to knowingly and willfully falsify or conceal facts made in statements to federal agencies concerning matters under their jurisdiction.

posted July 26, 2015 02:43 PM            

At best, Hillary Clinton is a liar...who said she didn't receive or transmit classified info on her email account. Out of only 40 emails tracked by the Inspector Generals, 4 had classified information. That's 10%. Out of the 55,000, there would be 5500 breaches of National Security by Hillary.

This is the lying, incompetent, corrupt boob leftist want for President of the United States. If the Justice Dept were not a political arm of the demoscats, Hillary would be prosecuted.

posted July 26, 2015 04:06 PM            

PHOTO: No one interested in ‘Young Americans for Hillary’ party
July 26, 2015
By Olaf Ekberg

"Flyer Photo"

Every party has a party pooper and judging by this flyer, it’s Hillary Clinton.

Here’s an untouched flyer advertising a “Young Americans for Hillary”event for students, indicating there isn’t much energy for Hillary Clinton’s campaign among the youth in New Hampshire.

A photo of a flyer was posted on Twitter Friday for the party in Manchester, New Hampshire today.

Attendees are promised “young people, Hillary swag, Pizza, Political discussion, A good time.” And a photo of a young Hillary is garishly striped pants — what else could a college student possibly want?

Apparently a lot of things, as no one wants to be reminded about this “party.”

As Nancy points out:

The event is today at 1pm.

The 57th State ℅EF™ ‎@EF517_V2

.@Of_Angelis Question, will you be able to report on actual attendance? That would be awesomeness
Nancy ن ‎@Of_Angelis

.@EF517_V2 oh yeah, I'm going to the 3rd floor of some random building to have a "good time" getting some "Hillary swag" - lol! No.
7:54 PM - 24 Jul 2015

posted July 26, 2015 04:45 PM            

•The speakers emphasized the important role Millennial voters can play in the political process by getting out the vote, engaging fellow students on campus, and supporting the objectives of the Democratic Party.

•The conference began July 22 and will end this Saturday.

Emphasizing the importance of Millennial voters in upcoming elections, progressive activists spoke to a nearly empty auditorium at the College Democrats of America annual conference on Friday.

Despite offering a full day of activities, speakers like Julian Castro, and campaigning advice from top political operatives, the College Democrats of America were barely able to fill the first couple rows with young attendees.

The speakers emphasized the important role Millennial voters can play in the political process by getting out the vote, engaging fellow students on campus, and supporting the objectives of the Democratic Party. The conference began July 22 and will end this Saturday.

Donna Brazile, Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee and frequent television political commentator, began an unscheduled appearance by thanking “all those who work so hard to ensure that all of our young people, all of our College Democrats, are involved, active, and engaged in the national Democratic Party.”

Brazile encouraged the members of the sparse audience to seek public office while pointing to an empty chair on stage.

“I want you to start thinking about filling this seat,” said Brazile, who said she has been active in politics since childhood and looked forward to the contributions of the next generation.

“I didn’t come here with any talking points, I don’t have a speech, I don’t have a candidate yet, but I do have an empty chair,” said Brazile.

During a panel earlier in the day, Rock the Vote president Ashley Spillane described Millennials as the “Get Sh*t Done Generation” but said that “the current political landscape isn’t that inspiring and people are frustrated with politics.”

posted July 26, 2015 05:39 PM            

Asks readers: 'Have you been sexually harassed by Bill Clinton?'
Published: 20 mins ago

Bill Clinton sexual-harassment accuser Kathleen Willey has launched an anti-Hillary Clinton website titled “A Scandal A Day.”

The site is partially aimed at recruiting other women who may have been assaulted by the former president.

Calling Hillary Clinton “without a doubt the most corrupt politician that this nation has ever seen,” Willey announced the launch of her new website Sunday on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM and online.

Willey, the former volunteer aide to Bill Clinton who says she was sexually harassed by the president in the 1990s, explained the website is part information oriented and part political activism.

“The Clintons have made it extremely easy for me,” she said during the radio interview. “I don’t have to do a lot of research because it’s not just a scandal a day. It’s about two or three scandals a day. So what I’m doing is kind of a compilation of these scandals, and explaining them in simple terms so most people can understand what’s going on, and what they’re up to and why they are lying every day.”

One section of Willey’s website asks readers: “Are you being harassed, stalked, intimidated or persecuted by a person in position of power or public trust?”

However, Willey told Klein she was going to add another question to the site meant to recruit other women who may have been targeted by Bill Clinton.

And she said she previously heard from other possible Bill Clinton sex victims.

Stated Willey: “In light of what’s happened with Bill Cosby, I thought I’m going to add to that. ‘If you or any one you know has been harassed, sexually harassed, assaulted or intimidated by Bill Clinton please send your name and email address and you can be assured that your anonymity will be ensured and it will be honored and you will be safe and we will make sure that you are safe.’”

“I think it’s time for people to start coming forward,” she maintained. “I know I’m not the only one.”

Willey said that while she was writing her 2007 book, “Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton,” she was anonymously contacted by other women who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton.

She told Klein the women who called her “were afraid to talk to me because they were afraid my phone was being tapped. They didn’t give me their names. They gave me incidences, time, places, where things happened and what happened.”

She continued: “And frankly I was pretty horrified by some of the things they told me. And they were scared to death of Hillary Clinton. And I don’t blame them.”

Get the whole story on how sexual harassment at the hands of Bill Clinton turned into bullying at the hands of the Clinton administration in Willey’s book “Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton.”

“She is the one that everybody should be scared of. All of these women. Hillary Clinton is without a doubt the most corrupt human being, the most corrupt politician that this nation has ever seen, man or woman.”

“And now it’s time to come up and stand up and tell what happened once and for all,” she said, referring to the other women who may have been victimized by Hillary’s husband. “There’s safety in numbers.”

As WND reported, Willey and her husband, Ed, were Democratic activists who founded Virginians for Clinton and helped send Bill and Hillary to the White House in 1992.

While serving as a volunteer in the White House and facing financial hard times, Willey says she met with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office to request a paying position. But instead of getting help, she says, she was subjected to “nothing short of serious sexual harassment.”

Distraught, Willey fled Clinton’s presence, only to discover that her husband Ed had committed suicide that same tragic afternoon.

Later, she was drawn “unwillingly” into the Paula Jones lawsuit, the Ken Starr investigation and impeachment proceedings.

Willey also claims the Clinton tag team was behind a string of events that can only be described as a mob-style intimidation campaign to keep her silent. It even included breaking into her home to steal her memoirs of the events.

posted July 31, 2015 10:03 AM            

Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects are evaporating as more details emerge on her abuse of classified information and her lies about it. A McClatchy story published yesterday must have Democratic Party elders and the Obama White House, especially Valerie Jarrett, plotting the most effective way to dump her before she takes down the party in the 2016 election.

Using already-published texts of one email and leaks apparently from a congressional staffer, McClatchy Washington Bureau reporters Marisa Taylor, Greg Gordon And Anita Kumar write:

The classified emails stored on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server contained information from five U.S. intelligence agencies and included material related to the fatal 2012 Benghazi attacks, McClatchy has learned.

Of the five classified emails, the one known to be connected to Benghazi was among 296 emails made public in May by the State Department. Intelligence community officials have determined it was improperly released. (snip)

 McClatchy also has determined some details of the five emails that the intelligence community’s inspector general has described as classified and improperly handled.

Intelligence officials who reviewed the five classified emails determined that they included information from five separate intelligence agencies, said a congressional official with knowledge of the matter.

Hillary’s previous statement that there was nothing on her emails that was “classified at the time” just won’t wash:

“Even if Secretary Clinton or her aides didn’t run afoul of any criminal provisions, the fact that classified information was identified within the emails is exactly why use of private emails . . . is not supposed to be allowed,” said Bradley Moss, a Washington attorney who specializes in national security matters. “Both she and her team made a serious management mistake that no one should ever repeat.”

The 30,000 emails that she has turned over to the State Department also exist, completely outside of any security protection, on a thumb drive she turned over to her lawyer, David Kendall. This means that any mugger, burglar, or intelligence agency conceivably could get ahold of this US government confidential information:

On June 25, McCullough notified members of Congress that he understood that Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, possessed the more than 30,000 Clinton emails on a computer thumb drive.

In a July 24 letter to FBI Director James Comey, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa expressed concern about “a compromise of national security information” because of Kendall’s possession of the thumb drive. He called on Comey to explain what steps the FBI had taken to secure the information.

“This raises very serious questions and concerns if a private citizen is somehow retaining classified information,” wrote Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

Kendall did not respond to phone and email messages. The FBI and the Justice Department declined to say whether security officials had recovered the device or had arranged for its secure storage.

”Reckless” is the kindest accurate description of this sort of behavior. It is, quite simply, indefensible, and any GOP candidate for president could demolish Hillary in a debate over her exposing secrets to any foreign intelligence agency that cared to look. “Thumb drive” is an expression that carries a concrete image for most people under the age of 80. The picture of David Kendall walking around with a thumb drive in his pocket containing vital secrets of 5 US intelligence agencies is made for a 30 second TV spot.

Hillary’s fate now rests in the tender hands of Valerie Jarrett, who almost certainly is advising President Obama on what to do next. The last thing she or he wants is a Republican president who can undo his executive orders. They do not want to be seen as torpedoing Hillary willfully, but they need to signal her that if she does not withdraw “in order to spend more time with her granddaughter,” the forensics team at the FBI is going to be working on the hard drive of her home server recovering the sordid details of her haggling with foreign governments and state-controlled enterprises over money for the Clinton Foundation and Bill’s speaking fees.

posted August 01, 2015 10:30 AM            

Barack Obama is the most “Progressive” of recent, and perhaps of all, American presidents. Indeed he is the only recent Democratic president rightly characterized as “Progressive” rather than just liberal.

But with massive increases in government debt and food stamp use, declines in labor force participation, the impending insolvency of the Social Security Disability Fund, relentless unemployment among African-Americans and deteriorating race relations, and by far the worst economic “recovery” in modern American history, one has to ask (in the sarcastic style of my Jewish grandma), “This is progress?!?”

It’s not just that things aren’t going well. It’s that they’re going particularly badly for those whom Progressives claim to care about most (the poor, minorities, the “working class”) while the rich get richer (in itself not a bad thing) and large companies succeed while small companies struggle and new business formation stagnates — a terrible situation in an economy that relies on small and new companies for job growth.

Conservatives have long fretted over Democrats controlling the political lexicon, causing words to mean — Humpty Dumpty style — what liberals say they mean, but we have consistently failed in changing the literal terms of the debate.

Following on Barack Obama’s dismal performance, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and campaign offer the best opportunity in memory for Americans to reconsider the true meaning of the most fundamental word in the left’s rhetorical arsenal: Progressive.

Mrs. Clinton has yet to propose a truly new idea. Each of her few policy positions are regurgitations of populist pabulum that offer nothing innovative, nothing for Americans to get excited about, no hope to improve the lives of people anywhere on the income spectrum, and no future for our nation. In short, she is a perfect Progressive.

Hillary’s biggest “new” idea is to massively increase the capital gains tax rates and holding period for those Americans in the top income bracket — couples earning over $464,850 per year and individuals earning over $413,200 — creating six tax brackets with holding periods up to six years and confiscatory rates up to a jaw-dropping 43.8 percent.

Bloomberg and even the New York Times have trashed the plan as doing nothing more than making the tax code more complicated while not furthering Hillary’s stated goal of causing corporations and investors to become less short-term focused.

Beyond the feckless political pandering — can you smell Hillary’s fear of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren? — and economic idiocy of the plan, it’s remarkable that the wife of the man whose vaunted federal budget surplus occurred due to cutting the capital gains tax rate would so aggressively champion the opposite policy.

Other Clintonian “progress” includes pandering to black voters about “voter suppression” through Voter ID laws even though a recent poll shows that more than three-quarters of Americans, including 58 percent of Democrats, continue to support having to show photo ID before voting. (Data are mixed about the actual impact of the laws on turnout among blacks and other voting groups.)

Of course if you pander to blacks, you have to pander to women as well. Hillary does that in the most predictable fashion, tweeting out the threadbare but mythical “outrage of so many women still earning less than men on the job.”

Hillary is also calling for the installation of half a billion new solar panels in the United States. No matter your view on the merits of solar power (you can count me among the skeptics regarding its value for utility-scale power generation), if this is what counts as innovative policy Mrs. Clinton must have a truly stunted imagination.

In a politically boneheaded statement given Clinton’s need for Silicon Valley’s checkbooks and millennials’ votes, she whines about “the on-demand or so-called ‘gig economy’… raising hard questions about workplace protections.” Actually, Hillary, it doesn’t raise any such hard questions and your union-driven crocodile tears don’t mask the anti-progress nature of your complaints.

Her comment related particularly to ride-sharing service Uber, which received another thinly veiled threat from Clinton: “I’ll crack down on bosses who exploit employees by mischaracterizing them as contractors…” No, Hillary, it’s fairly simple: I own a car. I want to give someone a ride to make a few extra bucks. I don’t need your “protection” and I’m not — and don’t want to be — an employee.

Hillary might offer us even more “progress” if she would answer more questions. But she’s a political greased pig, refusing to take a position on issues ranging from the Keystone XL pipeline, the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade treaty, and repealing Obamacare’s medical device tax.

When Hillary Clinton deigns to answer a question, or during one of her remarkably robotic and somnolent teleprompter speeches, she offers hackneyed and harmful policy prescriptions that, even if you’re of a moderately liberal mindset, must strike you as utterly uninspiring and representing anything but “progress.” In trying to be everything to everybody, she’s turning into nothing for anybody.

Soul-crushing big-government policies are, to coin a phrase, failed policies of the past. What’s really new — in the sense that it was abandoned long ago by American politicians of both major parties — is freedom. Freedom-based policies derive from trusting (as Progressives manifestly do not) that Americans are, can be, and prefer to be self-reliant and smart enough to make important and often difficult choices about our own lives and businesses without being nudged, much less shoved, by the Nanny State. More freedom… that would be real progress.

So why do conservatives, who are proposing creative, cost-saving, and freedom-enhancing solutions to a wide range of vexing public policy issues from poverty to education to health care to transportation funding, allow the regressive, bossy, mindless and uncreative left to maintain the mantle of “progressive”? I wish I knew.

posted August 03, 2015 03:44 PM            

Yes, by all means repeal the Bill of Rights..."to move America forward."

I'd bet the farm Bernie Sanders voters are just as stupid as Hillary voters...or even more so.

Video: Hillary Supporters Call For Repealing Bill of Rights
"You can't have the rules of yesteryear now"
Paul Joseph Watson
August 3, 2015

Hillary Clinton supporters in San Diego would support a move by the 2016 presidential frontrunner to repeal the bill of rights, another shocking illustration of how many Americans are completely ignorant on basic issues.

Asked by Mark Dice whether they would advocate Hillary’s ‘primary campaign promise’ to “help with the new world order,” virtually all were in agreement.

“Do you think it’s time we get behind her and support the repeal,” Dice asked one woman, who responded, “I think it is, I think we need change like they’ve been promising us for so many years, I think it’s time to get behind Hillary Clinton and support her.”

Referring to the bill of rights, the woman added, “You can’t have the rules of yesteryear now, so much has changed….we live in a different world now,” before again emphasizing that she supported Hillary’s plan to repeal the freedoms outlined by the founding fathers.

Another woman concurred that it was a “good time to look at” repealing the bill of rights, another young lady agreed that it was necessary to “move America forward.”

Yet another individual remarked that the bill of rights was, “somewhat outdated,” while another two women blithely supported abolishing the founding document to “help America progress.”

An African-American man who said he “agreed with a lot of Hillary’s policies” said he wouldn’t repeal the entire bill of rights, just part of it, namely the ones that “are related to injustices to the blacks.”

Suffice to say, the man couldn’t actually name any of the bill of rights or why they were unjust towards black people. After he implied that the bill of rights itself was racist, the man acknowledged, “this is just coming from a guess.”

posted August 04, 2015 08:24 AM            

Last Friday, Hillary Clinton released the Clintons’ income tax returns for 2007-2014. They were very much as had been rumored.

From 2007 to 2014, the Clintons “earned” $141 million. They paid $56 million in taxes, leaving a net balance of $85 million. The Clintons gave $15 million to charity over the same period, which gets your attention. $15 million to charity! Not too shabby! Reading down a couple of paragraphs, it turns out that the charity they gave the $15 million to was… the Clinton Family Foundation. Aarrrggghhh. Fooled again.

Where did this money come from? Or to put it differently, what was sold to generate this income? Steel? Oil? Aircraft? Legal services?

None of the above. So, what was sold for $141 million?

You. The United States of America.

Or, more precisely, influence over the policies of the United States of America. We are the sole superpower in the world. We have interests of all types in all areas. What is it worth to potentates around the world to “adjust” the policy of America? Perhaps just a little there. Perhaps deposing a dictator here. Who knows what the specific transactions were? Not knowing keeps the Clintons out of jail.

The pipeline? Speeches. $141 million of speeches. LOL. As a famous poet once said, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way that wind blows.” So, a wink and a nod on one side of the transaction and a speech on the other. Presto -- Juan Peron.

Since the Clintons are nonpareil at shamelessness and obfuscation, Hillary’s line on this magic fortune is the American Dream…

"We've come a long way from my days going door-to-door for the Children's Defense Fund and earning $16,450 as a young law professor in Arkansas --- and we owe it to the opportunities America provides," Clinton wrote in the release. [emphasis added]

“We owe it to the opportunities that America provides.” Terrific. A piece of misdirection or, worse, the way socialists actually think wealth is accumulated. But this is not an enterprise fortune in the American tradition of providing a good or service to the public. This is a socialist fortune. This is the nomenklatura skimming off from the commonweal, the community of the nation. And doing so in a way that compromises -- for the first time in our history -- the integrity of our governmental processes.

Think of where this goes. The Secretaryship of State = $141 million. What does the presidency go for? $1 billion? Sounds about right. And what about the next Secretary of State? Won’t $141 million now be taken as a baseline with increases as we go along?

Now that this is established practice, what about the lesser offices? All the way down the chain. Now that the rigorous, the noble standard of probity has been dismissed, and with great élan and fanfare, what incentive is there for the rest of the bureaucracy to practice it?

It is this cupidity that characterizes almost all the governments of the world. The nomenklatura takes the surplus off the top and the rest of the nation is left with subsistence. Of course, we are not there yet. But this is the path that the Clintons have put us on.

It has been widely noted that in 1900, Argentina was one of the top 10 nations in the world in standard of living and potentially of international influence. But in the 20th century, primarily under the Perons, it went the way of government skimming, of cupidity by government officials and has been a backwater for at least half a century.

While there are occasional criminal exceptions in our past as there are bound to be in any great human endeavor, probity in our public affairs has been one of the outstanding characteristics of America. Our generals do not skim off the supplies for the troops. Our engineers do not skim off the materials for construction. America operates with integrity.

Until the Clinton fortune. With our first socialist fortune, we are leaving behind George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Black Jack Pershing, Dwight Eisenhower, just to list a very, very few who served the Republic for their salary and nothing else. Now we are selling our policies to the highest bidder.

Day One, everything remains the same. But Day 100, Day 1,000 it will not be the same.

Let’s look at just a few implications of our officials setting out to make a fortune from high office:
•When our military is sent into battle, they need faith that the mission is in the interest of, is a matter of high consequence to, the nation. Mistakes may be made, but everyone is pulling in the same direction. The soldiers who glance at each other before stepping out into harm’s way have to believe they are contributing to history. Lack that, and you get the Iraqi army. We are not there yet, not even close. But for the first time in our history with the Clinton fortune, we have started down that path.
•What can happen is that in the agencies of authority we get the form without the substance. We get Mexico, where government officials are so compromised they can no longer provide domestic tranquility.
•When you call the police, they may not be on your side, unless they are paid.

We are not in any of these places…yet. But if America should go down and historians are picking through the rubble, they will see the Clinton fortune as the moment when we abandoned faith in America’s destiny and descended into a Hobbesian world of all against all.