This from Judicial Watch, yesterday:
Yes, folks, that’s right: the story we were given, again and again, by this administration — that the attack in Benghazi was just an impromptu reaction to an inflammatory video — was, as has been obvious for some time, a pack of lies. (Today we learned also that the Ninth Circuit has ruled that the video should not have been pulled from YouTube.)
Meanwhile, the destructive effects of the collapse of Libya — perhaps this administration’s grossest, and most avoidable, foreign-policy blunder of all, and that’s saying something — continue to reverberate. Libya, before our witless betrayal of our vassal Qaddafi, was for long years a stable and prosperous nation. Now it is a chaotic failed state, and an incubator for jihad. It has also become a primary staging ground for hordes of Africans seeking illegal entry to Europe, creating a pressure on southern European nations that has lately become intolerable — so much so, in fact, that the E.U. is even considering military action against refugee-smuggling boats.
At the center of all of this, of course, is Hillary Clinton, the Democratic heir apparent about whom every news cycle seems to bring another damning revelation. In his Morning Jolt newsletter today, Jim Geraghty does a nice job of rounding up some of the latest, here.
Also, the Washington Post reported today on another Clinton-machine money-sluice, here.
(NB: Regarding these exorbitant speaking fees, it should be obvious that there is nothing Hillary Clinton could say in 20 minutes that would be worth paying $315,000 dollars to hear. These payments, then, are clearly just a way to funnel funds into the Clintons’ pockets so as to avoid campaign-contribution regulations. Moreover, nobody would spend this kind of money without some valuable consideration in return, and the only imaginable quid-pro-quo here is the prospect of future political favors.)
That this appalling woman is not only a disastrously incompetent practitioner of statecraft, but also an influence-peddler at the grandest imaginable scale and a scheming, habitual deceiver, becomes plainer every day. What is really remarkable, though, is how little any of this has yet to affect her support among her coastal liberal base. Everyone — including even the New York Times and the Washington Post — knows by now how vile she is, but legions of educated, middle-aged people (particularly women) still want to see her prevail. (I know more than a few of them myself.) And of course she still has the support of those corporations and individuals who have paid enormous sums to the Clinton money-laundering apparatus to buy access and influence — because if she doesn’t win, their money is wasted.
I continue to believe Mrs. Clinton will not win the Democratic nomination in 2016. But I do have to say that the durability of her support, despite this daily accumulation of withering revelations, is really something. These Clintons are turning out to be as hard to get rid of as an invasive species.
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What difference, at this point, does it make?
“What is really remarkable is how little any of this has yet to affect her support among her coastal liberal base. Everyone – including even the New York Times and the Washington Post – knows by now how vile she is, but legions of educated, middle-aged people (particularly women) still, apparently want to see her prevail.”
We have to face it, She is them. That is what they have been reduced to. Criminals, Sovietized authoritarians.
Snoop Dog still likes her, too. (He makes his case, with all the rigor you’d expect, here.)
http://libertybellediaries.com/2015/05/19/lemmings-at-the-cliffs-edge/
I’ve heard that the thing to do with invasive species is trap them, kill them, and eat them. Wonder what Hil’s brain tastes like. Bet it tastes like betrayal.
Nah Kevin. I’m figuring bacon -stomach bacon- but that’s only because I know what it is.
http://foodspin.deadspin.com/how-to-cook-pork-belly-which-thoroughly-kicks-bacons-a-1619788169
Oh Kevin.
Would you eat Hillary? Or any products from Hillary derived?
I’d imagine, “unlikely” but I always stand for “Freedom of Expression.”
Just wondering.
Don’t worry…..”probably tastes like chicken”.
Don’t worry… (Whitewall sez) ..”probably tastes like chicken”.
But then there’s the matter of Arkansas’ Tyson’s Chickenopolis which, I’m fairly certain – even Whitewall knows.
“Hillary tastes like chicken?”
I doubt it.
Unless her underdrawers’re stamped by the USDA “Inspected & Passed” which, like I said, I doubt.
But then I suppose it comes down to the question of some sort of consensus of Waka readers
“Who – most likely – got plucked?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wHzt6gBgI
A yenta (Yiddish for an old-woman gossip) goes into a butcher shop and asks for a chicken. The butcher hands her one, whereupon she spreads the chicken’s drumsticks and inhales, “This chicken doesn’t smell fresh!”
The butcher replies, “Lady, Miss America couldn’t pass a test like that.”
JK, Tyson’s doesn’t have a section in the grocery store called “old buzzard”.