The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

[Guest post by hit and run*]

...now includes the New York Times.

We'll direct you to Ed at Hot Air for some commentary on the piece - spoiler alert, there might be something untoward as it relates to the Clintons.  Let's highlight this graph:

Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.

Indeed, that something Clinton-related is described as having "ethical challenges" has moved way beyond dog-bites-man to something more akin to dog-wags-tail.

IT IS ONLY A METAPHOR: I am not saying former President Clinton is chasing tail.  Besides, in terms of a metaphor, a dog is usually described as chasing his own tail, not that of others.

THE DOG IS NOW LICKING ITSELF: In what will surely surprise no one, there may be something hinky about the Clinton Foundation's tax returns over the past several years.  Not disclosing donations from foreign governments?  Typo.  

Link to Last Page of Thread.

Comments

[Beasts of England]

We've gone from Cash for Clunkers to Cash for Clintons. Ugh.

[narciso]

we don't remember this fellow:

http://fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/2-21.htm

or vignola's pardon, or Marc Rich, (was it Rosen who said Holder regretted signing off on it,)

[henry]

Yup. vast attempt to shut down Clinton (Rev Jessie, Rev Al, etc.) shakedown machines. They are as much "for the children" as Margaret Sanger.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

The Clintoon Crime Family Foundation should by itself be enough to capsize the HMS Pantsuit although Slick's insane nattering about ISIS being an NGO gave Georgetown students a semester's worth of casuistry.

[Beasts of England]

Welp, I've learned a new word today, I can take the afternoon off. Thanks, Captain Casuistry!!

[henry]

Does slick get write offs for the virgin goats his foundation contributed to Adam Gadahn.

[Eric in Boise]

I'm just thankful Hit didn't use that "dog licking itself" riff in a Hillarity! post. Thank you very much.

(Heads off to look up "casuistry")

[narciso]

this happened back in January, they are announcing it now?

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Adam Gadahn no longer stealing Gaia's oxygen to use for goat burrito farts is very good news. Has the ewok written about that yet?

[narciso]

true, stoner kid hits the big time, Beck's crew had a riot with the 'Afghanistan to Zanzibar' flourish,
in one of their dispatches,

[Miss Marple]

It occurs to me that Hillary is trapped in this candidacy. She HAS to run because all of those foreign people who gave money over the last 2 years did so in the expectation that she would be the nest president. Failure to deliver could have very unpleasant consequences.

Plus as long as she is a candidate, no charges will be filed, as Obama does not want to open that can of works and be accused of interfering in a primary (which would probably not bother him but would give many other dems pause).

So, even if she seems incompetent and unenthusiastic, her candidacy will lumber on, soaking up money and time from other possible candidates. The big bucks donors will avoid the other candidates due to fear of the Clintons' well-known talent for revenge.

And her minions, such as David Brock and Lanny Davis, are trapped in the death march with her.

I look forward to the fireworks to come as the election draws closer.

[Extraneus]

Shweizer's next target is Jeb.

“What we’re doing is a drill-down investigation of Jeb’s finances similar to what we did with the Clintons in terms of looking at financial dealings, cronyism, who he’s been involved with,” Schweizer told me on Wednesday. “We’ve found some interesting things.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-23/clinton-cash-author-is-targeting-jeb-bush-next

[Rick Ballard]

You guys don't know the meaning of a word describing one of the two pillars supporting the American system of jurisprudence? Our system would surely collapse if it rested solely upon sophistry.

[narciso]

you mean it doesn't:

so the Medici's embrace of Red Queen, her endorsement of Zaphod, Wolf Hall is turning out to be a timely allegory of these times,

[narciso]

so Pinchuk's Interpipe, affiliated with Medvedev's Gazprom, provides the means of shipping out the oil, Uranium One, provides the fuel for Iran's reactors, technically Prince Turki is against the Iranian bomb, but it could be a long play for their own nuclear program, these things don't happen in a vaccuum,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Casuistry is to sophistry is to speciousness as Barry Obama is to Sir Edmund Clinton is to Nancy Pelosi.

[Jack is Back!]

CH beat me to it but:

Looks like The Champ hasn't lost his "merde touch". Upcoming presser to explain how two innocent hostages were killed in an anti-terror raid that killed that Gadan kid from California.

I can't wait to hear how he read about this in the papers.

Supposedly it all went down in January and now are hering about it.

[narciso]

was this around the time, 'those random folks' were shot up in that jewish deli,

[Beasts of England]

Uh, oh. Barky is on TV apologizing for killing a US citizen and an Italian in a counterterrorism raid. And he's saying Pohkeestahn.

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for the warning, guys. I can refrain from turning on the TV.

Why is he saying this now? What are we being distracted from noticing?

[Jack is Back!]

CH,

I thought that the Clinton Foundation was "the most interesting" NGO in the world.

[Beasts of England]

My thoughts, too, Miss Marple. There has to be an ulterior motive with Teh JEF. Curiouser and curiouser.

[Jack is Back!]

It was a Sheihk Al-Brenna operation using a drone but smells. If you have the HUMINT that Gadahn and others were located for the strike then where was the HUMINT that left out the hostages location???

[Jack is Back!]

....Sheihk Al-Brennan.....

[Miss Marple]

Beasts, I do wonder if Obama has also been drawn into the Clinton Foundation scandal, for after all, HE had to sign off on that Russian uranium buy.

When's that book coming out?

[narciso]

Steinhauer's latest slim volume, has one of the characters, (ridiculing Romney's foreign policy) it's set in 2012, he later turns out to be a dubious character in the operation that bookends the tael

[narciso]

with the original Assange, he tried to inflate the size of his organization,

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/239681-five-new-leakers-possible-since-snowden

[Beasts of England]

I'm not sure, Miss Marple. I can't help but think that Øbama is involved in the leaks to undermine Hil, and that he believes he can withstand the scrutiny of the donation better than she can. Which is likely, as the cash didn't go to his slush fund.

[narciso]

so it happened about a week after paris,

[Ben]

"Then where was the HUMINT on the hostages location?"

The same place it was during Tora Bora. Btw the senior bin laden wants to part the Red Sea with a suspension bridge. Miracles still happen.

[Jack is Back!]

Yowza! Brett Baier is like a hound dog on a hambone with his Clinton Cash expose. Getting a peek now on FNC. The Slimes is even cooperating at full throttle.

I am changing implosion to erosion.

[sbw]

Sophistry? Isn’t that a Sophie Tucker joke? ::Googling::
I will never forget it you know. I was terribly drunk the other night. I woke up and there was an elephant in my bed. I said,"Lord have mercy I must've been tight last night." "Well,"said the elephant, "kinda."

[Captain Haiku]

Scandals everyday
Never consequences, though
Very frustrating

[narciso]

lets think this through, State wouldn't have been the only agency to sign off on this deal, right Commerce would have something to do with this 'reset roundup' I don't think one could quarantine this only to Red Queen,

[Beasts of England]

I'm having a hard time reconciling the absurdity of Walker bring wrung out for secret routers and so-called coordination, while Clinton is cash flowing hundreds of millions from foreign governments and it's been greatly ignored.

[Miss Marple]

Fertile areas of inquiry would have to include the Obama tax returns, the Obama Library fund,
and the funding for OFA.

[henry]

Beasts, in the court filings on the John Doe it came out the GAB and DAs were using illegal secret routers and private emails to coordinate the political attack on conservatives -- just like the EPA, IRS, Hillary etc. The difference? Walker's campaign was required by law to be off of state resources (the secret router was not secret, the private email accounts were required by law).

[Ben]

Another attempt to corner the spun yarn market that may even exceed BENGHAAAZZZZEEEE in creative wishful thinking. You're better off using that coconut to plan what you'd do with the Powerball jackpot.

[Beasts of England]

I saw a reference to that the other day at Althouse, henry. The irony is indeed delicious.

[narciso]

play it again, sam:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2015/0421/How-the-fall-of-Qaddafi-gave-rise-to-Europe-s-migrant-crisis-video

the 'reset redoubt' begins with Red Queen, but no way does it does it stop at her door,

[Captain Hate]

Here's a clip of what Jane was talking about before as YEEEAAARRGGHH gets roundly ridiculed by the Intern Killer and even Ed McMahon Meeka joins in the slattering:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2015/04/23/morning-joe-slams-howard-deans-jihad-against-clinton-expos%C3%A9

No, Yeeaarrrgh, you didn't look like a tool at all.

[Threadkiller]

Well at least we are all reassured knowing that the quest for money wouldn't involve violating the eligibility requirements for POTUS.

[narciso]

As a commenter at Althouse points out, Keystone Pipeline can't be approved, but Volodya getting a 20% stake in Uranium, that's fine and dandy, i'm paraphrasing,

[Miss Marple]

Excuse me, but didn't Obama have to sign off on that uranium deal?

It's not like Hillary could give approval without others being involved.

[Beasts of England]

Fixin' to finish up packing and start the trip to New Orleans for the JazzFest with the Beastettes!! Wish me luck! And if we happen to run into Lady Gaga, I'll be sure to pass along best wishes from all the JOM family. :)

[narciso]

I guess that explains the flak from the usual suspects, who would ordinarily be flambeeing Hillary on a spit,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

If you happen to run into Lady Gaga just make sure you're exceeding the speed limit when you do.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Beasts:
the trip to New Orleans for the JazzFest with the Beastettes!!

I'm not jealous.

But I am lying.

You kids have a lot of fun.

I did make my crawfish etouffe and dirty rice last week when sis in law and hubby were in town...

[narciso]

isn't what they did re the tax returns, mail fraud?

[Ben]

As you know flambe on a spit is as dangerous for the chef as it is for the planned entre.

[Old Lurker]

Want to worry even more?

LUN.

The comments nail the implications dead on.

[jimmyk on iPad]

"Excuse me, but didn't Obama have to sign off on that uranium deal?"

The funny thing is that Dems use that to defend Hillary, saying she had no real policy influence, it was all Barry in action. Aside from the preposterousness of the notion of Precious actually doing anything but admiring himself in the mirror, how does this argument square with recognizing all of Hillary's "accomplishments."

[jimmyk on iPad]

And I had the misfortune of seeing a clip of Podesta, to whom I'd never paid much attention. Man, he is almost as repulsive as Carville. My skin is still crawling.

[narciso]

same for Ericsson, that also breached sanctions, which retained Levick Strategic Communications, the Gitmo detainee's lifeline,

[narciso]

seriously, why else would you let a russian company get a stake in a major Canadian uranium firm?

[NKvirusedandback]

Podesta is a lot smarter and more dangerous than Carville.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

From OL's link;

As of last month, Chase has also instituted a new policy which, “restricts borrowers from using cash to make payments on credit cards, mortgages, equity lines, and auto loans,” writes Professor Joseph Salerno of the Mises Institute.

I've never understood how that kind of policy squares with "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private."

[narciso]

definitely, more dangerous:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1626

[Old Lurker]

Why, that would make you think the Constitution applies, Iggy.

There are about six really alarming things about that story and what it bodes for government access to our money and to 100% knowledge of where we got it and where we spend it.

I swear we are all going to be bartering chickens if this continues.

[jimmyk on iPad]

Ig, you're still under the quaint misconception that words mean what they say, laws are enforced, etc. That's so 20th century.

[Miss Marple]

Guy Benson retweeted
Sean Davis @seanmdav · 4m 4 minutes ago

The Clintons blatantly lied about a uranium oligarch meeting held at their home until a photo of it emerged. https://youtu.be/rA-vSIIyz9I?t=5m19s …

[Threadkiller]

My automotive skills will come in useful in Barterworld.

My Google Lawyer skills? Not so much.

[narciso]

restraining order does it again:

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/23/dog-bites-man-lefty-senator-just-makes-stuff-up-man-bites-dog-wapo-busts-him/

[jimmyk on iPad]

OL beat me to it, but yes, the quest for a "negative interest rate" seems like a backdoor way to confiscate wealth and penalize those who save for the future, thought it does confer a nice capital gain for those holding fixed rate assets. Which includes the Fed, of course.

[James D.]

I doubt we'll even be allowed to barter chickens, OL.

[henry]

Larry Ellison has been pushing electronic cash for 30+ years. Can't to big data brother profiles with holes in the database.

[narciso]

even if you only go by the rockwell link, you can't put cash in a bank, or draw from it, 'winning the future'

[narciso]

self awareness, apparently is zero:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/world/middleeast/richard-c-holbrookes-diary-of-disagreement-with-the-obama-administration.html?

[Old Lurker]

Jimmy, the negative interest rate route to confiscation is one thing, sort of a slow boil. But the parallel to Cyrus where with the stroke of a pen they gave haircuts to all accounts in excess of $X is more likely where our Progs will take this. As it says in the link, first you engineer a crisis, then...

[NKvirusedandback]

JimmyK-- neg are designed to confiscte and distort investments by driving them to places savers don't necessarily want to go, hence the equities bubble. The other thing, as you point out is that neg rates reward the Debtor Class. And who are the biggest Debtors today? Why that would be governments at all levels, up to the Big Kahuna, the USA Fed Gov't. Very convenient.

[Jane]

It occurs to me that Hillary is trapped in this candidacy. She HAS to run because all of those foreign people who gave money over the last 2 years did so in the expectation that she would be the nest president. Failure to deliver could have very unpleasant consequences.

At my age, that's the stuff fantasies are made of.

[exdemocrat]

It - Gus, you really should get a message to Walker's people suggesting he go after the EB-5 'Pilot Program' this summer (its up for renewal in September). This so-called pilot program is responsible for perverting and corrupting an otherwise sensible part of a smart LEGAL immigration program.
Given Walker's recent statements on that issue, this is a great way to demonstrate what a principled pol looks like to the masses.

[Jack is Back]

Belgium just followed the Swiss and have issued a negative yield 5 year bond. It's like those twisting water slides where you can't wait for the big splash down.

[James D.]

I think that "THE DOG IS NOW LICKING ITSELF" would make an excellent replacement for "Ebola? Remain Calm and Wash Your Hands" as the tagline for this site.

[narciso]

then you don't let it go to waste, but the Red Queen's need for bakshi, is a small part of this story,

[Jack is Back]

Looks like the Iranians are worse poker players then Precious since they didn't call his bluff.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/23/fleet-iranian-ships-heading-to-yemen-turns-around-after-being-tracked-by-us/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn

[narciso]

so one looks at the policies that Zaphod has pursued, withdrawing the counterinsurgency strategy in both the Stans and Mesopotamia, was like steroids for the jayvee, giving Volodya veto over many of the sanctions, this disturbing series of mash notes, with Khamenei, and that's just the foreign angle,

[NKvirusedandback]

JiB- nah.. The Mullahs are just biding their time until sanctions are fully off... then they will do whatever they please. And Obummer will back them up.

[narciso]

so like the Dowager Empress's stone flotilla then,

[Old Lurker]

Silly Eric "I'm just thankful Hit didn't use that "dog licking itself" riff in a Hillarity! post. Thank you very much."

The Clintons never do anything themselves. They have people for those jobs.

[narciso]

good news everybody:

http://www.businessinsider.com/report-a-former-physics-teacher-is-now-leading-isis-2015-4

[Old Lurker]

Those ships were turned around as theater to make it appear that Obama can control Iran so that we will be more willing to accept the scam negotiated by Obama-Kerry. Duh.

[Captain Haiku, Low Info Voter]

Do negative rates
Mean my bank will, starting now
Pay my VISA bill?

[MarkO]

I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have uranium with that oligarch.

[Eric in Boise]

That visual's not much better, OL!

[NKvirusedandback]

OL@12:50-- exactly. The Mullahs are just playing games until sanctions are off. Then the nukes come out, and they'll say 'whaddya gonna do about it"

[narciso]

why is this, such a surprise,

http://www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-sons-jewish-super-pac-2015-4

[lyle]

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/04/23/report-tom-brady-wont-be-present-for-patriots-white-house-trip

I've never been much of a Brady fan but this warms my cold, evil, conservative heart.

[Jeff Dobbs]

From Jane, here is her partner Amy's youngest - Hailey the animal whisperer...

[Captain Hate]

restraining order does it again

Maybe his fatassed second wife, a more maudlin and less interesting version of MoDo, did his research.

[Jane]

Thanks Hit!

[narciso]

alas she is a Cockburn:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/04/23/olivia-wilde-hillary-a-really-exciting-candidate/

[narciso]

where did they get that notion from:

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/04/23/nyts-peters-clintons-think-there-are-no-legitimate-criticisms/

[Captain Hate]

Tammy Bruce is suggesting that the Clintoon Crime Family Foundation probably got overly influenced by the H&R Block "get your billions back, America" ads.

[Jack is Back!]

narc,

Are you up for Ex Machina? Opens today at our Epic Theater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKxC21uDBbA

Creepy SciFi.

[daddy]

Has anyone yet looked at the ROTC walking a mile in red high heeled shoes from the point of view that, not post-modernist invisible bias, but individual women decide for themselves to put on red high heels?

SBW,

I wonder if a Fraternity on Campus had ordered their pledges to march in Red High Heeled Shoes if they would have been shut down or penalized by Campus Administrators for excessive hazing, etc.

[Captain Hate]

Just when you think they've maxed out on screw ups:

http://weaselzippers.us/221544-secret-service-left-bush-41-vulnerable-alarm-on-house-broken-for-more-than-a-year/

[narciso]

looks intriguing,

[Miss Marple]

Ol Josh is getting hammered with questions about the Clinton Foundation at the press briefing today.

[narciso]

so if neither Faruq or Gadahn were supposed to be there, who was the target?