Everything’s Coming Up Roses

Ah, what a lovely morning.

Why? Well, it’s a balmy spring day here in the Outer Cape, where the air is fresh and fragrant, the little birds are singing, and the trees are stretching their new leaves in the golden May sunshine.

Even better, though, a new report from the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General makes it abundantly clear that Hillary Clinton violated the Federal Records Act in her handling of sensitive email. And it was just a couple of days ago that we learned that over just the last two years, Mrs. Clinton has soaked her corporate cronies for twenty-one million dollars in “speaking fees”, i.e. baksheesh paid up front for an interest in her Presidency.

Over at the Observer, Austin Bay comments on the OIG report, here.

Readers may recall that I made a wager last year with our erstwhile “progressive” gadfly The One-Eyed Man, in which I staked a good bottle of whisky on the proposition that Hillary Clinton would not only never be President, but wouldn’t even be the Democratic nominee. I’ll confess that I’ve been a little edgy about this lately; I hadn’t expected that the Dems would field such a thin field of candidates, and I’d thought that pretty much anyone with a pulse (or even just a soul) could knock this rasping succubus off the ticket. But now, with all of this, and with Mr. Trump running even (or better) with Mrs. Clinton in the polls, hope springs anew.

Meanwhile, over breakfast I spotted this fine post about “World War T” over at Social Matter. (The author is allegedly one “Hadley Bishop”, but as the mathematician John Bernoulli exclaimed upon seeing Newton’s anonymous solution to the “brachistochrone problem”, we “recognize the lion by his paw”.) More on that topic shortly, I think.

14 Comments

  1. Dedicating Ruckus says

    I must admit a lack of study in the details of the Democratic Party nomination procedures, but that commentary which I have read suggests that Clinton is very likely to take the nomination regardless of her many issues, due mostly to her many and deep connections within the party (as well as demographic appeal to core constituencies). Assuming this, it seems likely that Trump will win over her quite convincingly in the general. I must admit the prospect does fill me with a certain anticipation of schadenfreude; however, it comes at the cost of the perhaps greater pleasure of seeing Clinton rejected by her own party. (Also, I must protest as inaccurate the use of the term “succubus” for Clinton; succubi are at least externally attractive.)

    I am rather interested to notice the enormous preference of black voters for Clinton over Senator Sanders. Given the framing of this dichotomy as “establishment” against “outsider”, why is it that the black vote is pinning its hopes on “establishment”? Or does the perspective of black voters frame the choice differently? I honestly have no idea here.

    Posted May 26, 2016 at 12:09 pm | Permalink
  2. Whitewall says

    http://www.thediplomad.com/2016/05/clinton-and-oig-omg.html
    “if the IG can dig all this up, what will the FBI have dug up?”

    Posted May 26, 2016 at 1:38 pm | Permalink
  3. JK says

    From your WWT link;

    One man who must puzzle over this even more than me is New York City Mayor Warren Wilhelm Jr/Bill Deblasio.

    Not so:

    http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/downloads/pdf/publications/GenderID_Card2015.pdf

    Posted May 26, 2016 at 3:58 pm | Permalink
  4. DR,

    Though she was negligent in performing her wifely duty (according to Chris Rock), her mouth appears qualified to suck-a-bus.
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    Posted May 26, 2016 at 4:22 pm | Permalink
  5. According to your link, JK,

    In New York City, it’s illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender identity and gender expression in the workplace, in public spaces, and in housing. The NYC Commission on Human Rights is committed to ensuring that transgender and gender non-conforming New Yorkers are treated with dignity and respect and without threat of discrimination or harassment.

    They must be preparing to arrest most of the students in NYC public schools.

    Posted May 26, 2016 at 4:42 pm | Permalink
  6. We have a problem with guest authors showing up on the RSS feed. Hadley Bishop (Editor-in-Chief) shows up for all of them, even tho’ the guest author shows up on the displayed web page.

    PS. And yes, you could recognize Porter’s paw anywhere.

    Posted May 26, 2016 at 5:19 pm | Permalink
  7. Whitewall says

    This has some encouraging bits..http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/a-dialogue-with-a-22-year-old-donald-trump-supporter/48423

    Pull quote on Instapundit.

    Posted May 28, 2016 at 8:42 am | Permalink
  8. Bluefin Tuna says

    “I hadn’t expected that the Dems would field such a thin field of candidates…”

    Other prospective candidates were presumably paid to stay out, asked by Bubba not to run as a personal favor to him, or aggressively warned that it would be in the best interests of their long-term future with the party not to challenge Mrs. Clinton. Not actually being a Democrat, Mr. Sanders would hardly feel a need to obey orders from party bigwigs- this is assuming they even asked him; as a wild-haired fringe candidate, they probably didn’t take him seriously enough to bother trying to buy him off in the first place.

    That she is struggling to defeat a septuagenarian Socialist from a rural backwater state says a lot about her weaknesses as a candidate. (In fairness, it must be said that Sanders, though a deranged moonbat on policy, has always been a very skilled and savvy campaigner). If more American states still had the demographics of Vermont, he’d have locked her out of the nomination long ago by a landslide.

    Posted May 31, 2016 at 11:17 am | Permalink
  9. Malcolm says

    BT,

    If more American states still had the demographics of Vermont, he’d have locked her out of the nomination long ago by a landslide.

    And that’s not all.

    Posted May 31, 2016 at 3:01 pm | Permalink
  10. antiquarian says

    “Though she was negligent in performing her wifely duty (according to Chris Rock), her mouth appears qualified to suck-a-bus.”

    Big H, I dislike Hillary Clinton and her politics a lot. Nothing personal, but she should lose to people being classier than that. Please try to be more like William F. Buckley next time.

    Posted May 31, 2016 at 4:54 pm | Permalink
  11. OK, antiquarian, I’ll try. But I probably won’t succeed entirely while I’m alive :)

    Posted May 31, 2016 at 7:47 pm | Permalink
  12. “… And that’s not all.”

    Is that an allusion to “locked her up“?

    Posted May 31, 2016 at 7:55 pm | Permalink
  13. Malcolm says

    Henry,

    Is that an allusion to “locked her up“?

    No, I was just thinking how many other things would be different if more American states still had the demographics of Vermont.

    Posted May 31, 2016 at 8:29 pm | Permalink
  14. Whitewall says

    “No, I was just thinking how many other things would be different if more American states still had the demographics of Vermont.” Amen.

    Posted June 1, 2016 at 7:08 am | Permalink

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