More Static From the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Another partisan, Rove-inspired attack on Hillary, such as she (and we!) have endured for twenty-five years:

Mrs. Clinton, Show Voters Those Transcripts

Not "Madame Secretary"? I deplore this sexist condescension!

“Everybody does it,” is an excuse expected from a mischievous child, not a presidential candidate. But that is Hillary Clinton’s latest defense for making closed-door, richly paid speeches to big banks, which many middle-class Americans still blame for their economic pain, and then refusing to release the transcripts.

A televised town hall on Tuesday was at least the fourth candidate forum in which Mrs. Clinton was asked about those speeches. Again, she gave a terrible answer, saying that she would release transcripts “if everybody does it, and that includes the Republicans.”

Yeah, that makes sense because Kasich or Trump may wander over and seek the Democratic nomination, or something.

On Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton further complained, “Why is there one standard for me, and not for everybody else?”

The only different standard here is the one Mrs. Clinton set for herself, by personally earning $11 million in 2014 and the first quarter of 2015 for 51 speeches to banks and other groups and industries.

Voters have every right to know what Mrs. Clinton told these groups. In July, her spokesman Nick Merrill said that though most speeches were private, the Clinton operation “always opened speeches when asked to.” Transcripts of speeches that have been leaked have been pretty innocuous. By refusing to release them all, especially the bank speeches, Mrs. Clinton fuels speculation about why she’s stonewalling.

This latest partisan smear came from the NY Times editors, FWIW. That means some combination of (a) there must still be a candle or two flickering for Bernie; (b) we can look forward to non-stop clamoring for Trump's tax returns, or (c) the Times "journalists" never actually sold their souls to the Clinton Machine; it was a twenty-five year sale/leaseback, their time is up, and the Times wants to pretend to be journalists again.

I don't really believe (c) either. They will give her a four year extension with a four year option once the Democratic nomination is settled.

And do let me add: there is an old saying that if you owe the bank $1,000 you have a problem, but if you owe them $1,000,000 they have a problem.

There must be a political equivalent to that insight. Hillary is now holding the entire Democratic apparatus, obviously including the NY Times, hostage; this Mel Brooks classic moment can't be aired today but my Political Re-Eductors have not yet erased it from my memory [Trigger warning. Also, the rest of the gun, and anachronistic language].

Obama can't let Loretta Lynch indict Hillary because There Is No Alternative candidate. The NY Times can whine about her Goldman Sachs speeches or the Clinton Foundation or any other damn thing but they have already endorsed her and There Is No Alternative.

Except Bernie, who polls better than Hillary in meaningless hypothetical match-ups against different Republicans. That little crack in the window allows a ray of sun to shine through but it will be closed soon enough.

Let me close with their punchline:

Most important, she is damaging her credibility among Democrats who are begging her to show them that she’d run an accountable and transparent White House.

Neither of those Democrats seriously expect that; have the last twenty-five years taught them nothing?

THIS TOO SHALL PASS: In April of 2015 the Times editors were fulminating about the Clinton Foundation and its foreign donor problem:

Candidate Clinton and the Foundation

...

These half steps show that candidate Clinton is aware of the complications she and Bill Clinton have created for themselves. She needs to do a lot more, because this problem is not going away.

The problem is not going away? But when I search the Times website for coverage of "Clinton Foundation Disclosure" the coverage basically stopped with this editorial; a month later they did note disclosure of speeches made on behalf of the foundation.

Well, they can pretend they tried. Any chance they will try harder when it is a Republican under the microscope?

Comments

[DrJ]

Youza!

[Stephanie]

It occurs to me that with Romney demanding that Trump show us his 'Taxes,' Trump should show up at his next rally with a dump truck loaded with cash to show us his 'taxes.'

[narciso]

there were 1,000 omissions of tax liability by contributors to Spectre, if memory serves,

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

(re-post from the old thread)

A crooked Trump will most likely give me what I want in Government rather then a Socialist/Communist, or another politician Republican.
Posted by: Stephanie | February 25, 2016 at 11:30 PM

Stephanie - Any idea what your friend wants in government?

Did she say how she figures that someone like Trump, who denies he's done/said the things he's been proven and/or quoted/recorded as doing/saying, could *possibly* be counted on to do what he *now* says he is in favor of doing?

[Threadkiller]

Romney should have bet $10,000 on what's in Trumps taxes. Remember how cool he looked when he was getting all Daddy Warbucks at Perry in a debate.

[a friend]

Might whoever posts a new thread consider in future politely sliding back to the previous thread and posting a comment advising us poor whipsawed "Tail-end Charlies" hanging around dead threads that there's a new fricken' thread?

All's I'm saying TM and Jeff, is it might be a shame to wake up one morning with a horses head in your bed.

[narciso]

If this was happening to any other political figure, they would have been denied bail and would have been facing pretrial motions,

[Threadkiller]

I'm still hoping some intrepid reporter asks Cruz if he or Hedi ever went to a Hillary/Goldman affair.

Or if the know people who did.

I wouldn't mind a little hearsay.

[Threadkiller]

...if they...

[MarkO]

So the debate discussion is over? What does that mean?

[daddy]

Remember The Alamo!
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moa
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amo
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loam
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Besides those, are their any others words that can be made from the letters in "Alamo?"

[daddy]

lo and behold, there are!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

If Lindsey Graham were shot on the floor of the Senate and the trial were held anywhere else, they'd give the guy a gold watch and a cookie.

[daddy]

So the debate discussion is over?

It is for me MarkO, since I'm busy trying to saw off this horse's head.

It's tough trying to keep all the blood from getting into the Fedex packaging:(

[narciso]

it is curious about from here to eternity, the film whose role they allude to in the godfather,

[daddy]

If Lindsey Graham were shot on the floor of the Senate they'd have to see if the bullet passed thru John McCain lying beneath him.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Ewww...

[Texas Liberty Gal]

I was at a Dallas Stars game during the debate so was following it on twitter. Amazing how different opinons on twitter were compared to comments here. On twitter - Rubio took it to Donald-Rubio came off good-Donald came off bad. Cruz had good debate but didn't take it to Trump as well as Rubio did. Wolf did everything he could to rescue Trump everytime he got in trouble. Rubio & Cruz helped themselves - Donald got hurt but won't matter to his mind controlled followers

[Jeff Dobbs]

All's I'm saying TM and Jeff

I post "new thread" perhaps more than anyone else here.

I always say "new thread" when I am the one who put up the new thread.

I haven't put up a new thread in 3 months (literally, Sunday will mark 3 months since I've put up a new thread).

[narciso]

truth apparently is not a defense,

http://theothermccain.com/2015/08/08/why-i-got-suspended/

[MarkO]

daddy, I truly did laugh out loud.

[GUS]

I gave up putting up new threads for Lent

[Stephanie]

I usually put up a 'new fred' for the new thread.

Don't know why I started the new fred thing, but it's how I read it now.

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No idea what that dude thinks Donald is gonna do for him, but I guess he was trying to say that if we gotta elect thieves and crooks they might as well be our theives and crooks cause maybe the other guys (dems) will get screwed for once.

[narciso]

it's the wrong lizard theory from the hitchhiker's guide, so marco was going back about something that happened 36 years ago, before Lech Walesa led his solidarity strike,

[narciso]

the usual wurlitzer without details was going on in the twitter about this,

http://therightscoop.com/breaking-2-people-dead-multiple-injuries-at-shooting-in-hesston-kansas-employee-shooter-killed/

so another felon, goes on a rampage,

[GUS]

better keeps guns away from the law abiding.

[daddy]

After tonights Debate all's I can say is:
"Go Scott Walker!"

[narciso]

the two minute hate must continue,

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35602437

[narciso]

well it was always meant as a fig leaf,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/12173888/Michael-Howard-David-Camerons-reform-bid-has-failed-its-time-to-go.html

[daddy]

My take on Wretchard's latest is that there might not be an EU left for Britain to Brexit from:

The Return of the Nations

[anonamom]

If Rs have a brokered convention, will they draft Scott Walker? Rick Perry? Heck, I'' even take Huckabee.
If that's the case, we need to have them all stay in for the duration. That may mean sending Ben Carson some money.

I'm thinking since Dr. Carson is still in, that is why--God must want a brokered convention. He told a friend back in September he was in because it was what he felt God wanted him to do, and he would stay til he felt differently.

[Jeff Dobbs]

I can think of no plausible scenario in which the likelihood of Hillary or even Bernie winning in November is greater than one that includes a brokered R convention.

[anonamom]

Rubio impressed this pjmedia fellow:

https://pjmedia.com/blog/liveblogevent/drunkblogging-thursdays-gop-debate

JiB, THANK YOU for giving me the bug's name! I really, really wanted to know, and had given up ever having that information. I had no idea what a struggle a joint infection could be. Figured once they had the proper antibiotic,after three days of it IV all would be well, other than having five and a half more weeks IV to go. I am so sorry you have been so debilitated by this, and shall keep you on my prayer list.

IRT the speculation about my cryptic comment yesterday with the post on the importance of NARRATIVE (and its delivery) came to the correct conclusion: my husband sent the post to me. It is from a scientist whose
mission is to improve the narrative of space exploration (I think).
He, LIKE Scott Adams, writes clearly on the topic and gives insight into
what one could call PERSUASION.

(Sorry about caps; I've been unsuccessful in past using the italicizer thing here.)

[henry]

"Brokered convention" besides opening for electoral failure in Peoria back in the day, is the GOPe's last firewall of doom. The campaign consultants last gasp to keep their snouts in the elections trough.

[Miss Marple]

Good moring!

I saw something yesterday about Perry being open to be drafted at the convention.

After reading Wretchard's column above, I am beginning to think the convention will sort of resemble Europe, in other words, a disintegrating mess brought on by a bunch of feckless bureaucrats who had no idea about the Pandora's box they opened.

[anonamom]

Brokered conventions for both parties was the topic of the day Wednesday on one of the segments of The Diane Rehm Show. The "journalists" who made up the panel were beside themselves with the possibility---from the aspect of the opportunity for covering said event(s), not the good of the nation, which one of them made clear.

[henry]

Rubio turning on Trump for self repeating was a near miss -- no points for saying you too. He needed to call the Donald a lesser version of a robot, a "string pull doll." Pull string "loser". pull string "yuuuge". etc. that would set a narrative.

[Miss Marple]

I check things like this and read them, but the vagaries of the reporting on financial stuff is mostly a mystery to me. This seems to provide evidence that things are not going as swimmingly as the White House pretends:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-25/curious-case-strong-january-durable-goods-it-was-all-seasonal-adjustment

[henry]

MissM, they only have to cook 8 more months of numbers to get past the election.

[Jeff Dobbs]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE (IN MA)!!!

Which reminds me....One year ago today, we had this...

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And you know what? It happened! It really, really happened! Jane got to have drinks with Dave. And a half dozen other JOMers last June.

Of course, that was back when Jane was a fellow Masshole. She's abandoned Dave since then. She insists it wasn't a direct result of having met him.

[Beasts of England]

Happy Birthday, Dave (in MA)!!

[Jack is Back! (Barely)]

Happy Birthday Dave (inMA).

[Miss Marple]

Happy Birthday, Dave(inMA) !

[Beasts of England]

I'm going through the debate transcript - did they not ask Jeb a single question all night?

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

anonamom - You can do the italicizing thing, I'm sure of it.

The characters at the bottom of the commenting box have half of the info you need:
(You can use HTML tags like 'b' and 'i' to style your text.) [Had to change the b, and i, inside the <> to avoid formatting them.]

Just put the double arrows <> *immediately* before the first word, and after the last word, that you want to either bold, or italicize.
Then put the letter b, or i, inside the first <>; then put a forward-slash followed by the letter b, or i, inside the ending <>, like /b, or /i.

So, putting the word 'italics' in italics would look like this:

< x >italics< /x > (Except you would use an 'i' instead of the 'x', and there would not be any open spaces between the < i > .)

[Porchlight]

Happy birthday, Dave (in MA)! Ledge cocktails are calling your name. :)

[Jeff Dobbs]

Sarah Hoyt at Insty:

THIS ALMOST MAKES A VOTE FOR TRUMP PALATABLE. IF I BELIEVED SHARPTON: Al Sharpton might ‘get out of here’ if Trump wins.

Trump just went up 10 points in the polls. Thanks, Al!

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

anonamom - Forgot to mention that you can play around with trying out the HTML tags in the comment box, and use the preview function to see how well it works for you.

Hope this helps.

[Captain Hate]

Wednesday on one of the segments of The Diane Rehm Show. The "journalists" who made up the panel were beside themselves with the possibility---from the aspect of the opportunity for covering said event(s), not the good of the nation, which one of them made clear.

Ugh, how can you endure the prattling of such third rate intellects with speaking tics? It's always about them striving to fill their empty lives with something other than a real accomplishment.

[Miss Marple]

I see NBC had a story up on Twitter about Weightwatchers shares falling despite Oprah.

I think it should have read because Oprah, myself.

I had a friend who quit using their app because every time it opened there was Oprah staring at her. LOL!

Sorry I don't have a link; the NBC site link returned a 404. I figure Oprah threatened them or something.

[Captain Hate]

Does Orca still shill for the JEF or have her bean counters given her a heads up on how many of her audience were driven away by that?

[clarice]

Happy Birthday, Dave

[Miss Marple]

I don't know, Captain Hate. Since she self-segregated by moving to her own cable channel, I never accidentally run across her the way I sometimes did.

She is one of my many example's of JEF's merde touch on businesses, sports teams, and celebrities.

I have fond memories of her waddling into Copenhagen thinking she could get the Olympics for Chicago. In a gold lame dress, no less, like she was the empress or something. I think Michelle had on some glitzy number, too.

They did not make a good impression on the old European aristos who populate so much of the Olympic committee.

"Chicago's out? Chicago's out?"

Heh.

[NK]

Happy and Healthy B-Day Dave(inMa)

[henry]

new thread.