That Didn't Take Long

The Clinton Foundation is a pay-for-play institution and requires someone to either be in office (e.g. Hillary as Senator and Secretary of State) or en route to high office (e.g. Hillary's Presidential run).  If neither of these are happening, the funding will dry up.  Why pay if there is no play?  Someone in the Clinton family needs to be in government!  Chelsea, it's your turn.  Can we not be rid of the Clinton and Bush families?

Gender Wage Gap

At the Clinton Foundation, men really do earn a lot more than women.  Now we know where Hillary got her information that women are paid less; she was the one paying them less.

Turns out the Spoils System Thrives

Not only were the majority of non-governmental people she met with also donors to the Clinton Foundation, it turns out that 40% of the people she appointed to advisory boards were also donors.  Who is it who wants to get money out of politics?  Is this not the most obvious case of buying access ever?  Of note, only 6% of the Clinton Foundation money actually goes to charity.  The rest funds travel, hotel rooms, expenses, salary for employees, etc.  Sid Blumenthal, Hillary's aide-de-camp, is a highly paid employee ($10K a month) of the Clinton Foundation.  He is clearly a political operative for the Clintons, not a charity worker.  The Clinton Foundation money is a slush fund hidden beneath the veneer of a charitable organization.

Felon for President

Here is yet another story about Hillary's emails.  When she left her position as Secretary of State, she was required to sign a form that affirmed that she had returned all work-related documents.  All.  Not most, not majority.  All.  Falsely attesting that all documents were returned could easily result in a perjury charge.  There is also the fact that she deleted these documents.  It is a crime to delete government documents.  Then we have the use of BleachBit to make sure all those deleted emails were not recoverable from her server, which sounds a whole lot like the 'intent' that FBI Director Comey claimed was absent and therefore nixed prosecution.  What is really interesting about the article is that it never mentions criminality.  It offers undisputed facts which constitute crimes but fails to point out that they are crimes.

 

So far, among the deleted emails are these 30 that discuss Benghazi and even more that demonstrate a link between donations to the Clinton Foundation and action on behalf of the donor at the State Department, the very definition of political corruption.  Former President Bill Clinton would give a $100K+ speech to some company, the company would 'donate' millions to the Clinton Foundation, and then Secretary Clinton decided State Department policy in favor of that company.  Nothing to see here.  Move along.  Emails related to this process have been deleted.  Hey, it's an old story.  Really, at this point, what difference does it make?  Governor Bob McDonald was sentenced to prison for far less.

 

In 1992, the Democrats nominated a pot-smoking, draft dodging horndog who had protested his country while overseas.  He served two terms!

 

In 2008, the Democrats nominated a pot-smoking, cocaine-using, Islamic apologist with ties to terrorists and communists whose pastor had damned America in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.  He served two terms!

 

In 2016, the Democrats wondered just how much further they could push this.  Thus, they have nominated a breathtakingly dishonest, corrupt politician with a long history of demonstrable failure (Libya, Syria, Iraq, 1994 Healthcare Overhaul, getting Bill to keep it in his pants, etc.).  Currently, she is the favorite to win.

 

These are not good signs for the health of the Republic.  Rough waters ahead, regardless of outcome.

Who Should Drop Out?

It is entertaining to see all the calls for Donald Trump to drop out of the presidential race because he is a jerk.  Not just your run of the mill jerk but a true professional.  He is the Andrew Dice Clay of politics.  Okay, maybe not that bad.  Still, he has proposed policies that the elites find anathema, though polls find overwhelming support for them.  Hmm.  The Wall Street Journal, a host of Republican Foreign Policy experts, George Will, and a variety of Republican politicians have called for Trump to withdraw and let Mike Pence lose in November.  Well, of course that is what would happen and they all know it.  Better Hillary than Trump.  Interesting.

On the other side, no Democrats are demanding Hillary withdraw.  She was all but indicted over her email handling by FBI Director James Comey.  If these same events had happened in a Republican administration the shrieks of corruption would be unending.  And rightly so!  But she dodged that bullet, only to have another one arrive in the form of the Clinton Foundation.  Despite efforts to stonewall on the issue, the Associated Press pieced together phone logs and Clinton Foundation donations to discover that more than half of the non-governmental people who met with Secretary Clinton had also given money to the foundation.  Huh.  The case of Uranium One is an excellent example.  Rosatom, the Russian atomic energy agency, wanted to buy Uranium One.  Uranium One had a mine in the United States so the sale needed government approval.  During Hillary's time as Secretary of State, Uranium One's chairman donated $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation.  Amazingly, the Clinton State Department approved the sale that made a Russian company the largest uranium producer in the world.  Hillary has a For Sale sign on the door and lots of foreigners are taking advantage.  With this in mind, why aren't Democrats who believe in ethical behavior demanding that Hillary step down and let Tim Kaine take over?

Each is a terrible candidate but no Americans died because Trump refused to give Christopher Stevens the added security he had been requesting for months.  Libya didn't become a failed state and a breeding ground for Jihadis because Trump wanted to bomb them.  Trump didn't abandon Iraq and provide the power vacuum that birth ISIS.  One of these candidates has a record of failure in foreign policy but the one with no such record should drop out.  So many are incredulous that the Republicans could nominate Trump but why isn't there equal, if not greater, incredulity at Hillary's nomination?

I would be all right if both dropped out and let it be a Pence vs. Kaine election.