Tag: Hillary Clinton

An exclusive peek inside Feinstein’s house. Pretty funny.

Hillary:

A lot of us were just plain tired of the Clintons: Their baggage, their smug paternalism, their sense of entitlement, their attitude that the rules don’t apply to them, and all the rest.

I can’t wait to stop thinking about them.

She invited comments. But you can’t actually ask her to quit. The email form on her website begins:

“I’m with you Hillary, and I am proud of everything we are fighting for.”

Don’t play games with this one:

A reader writes:

If Hillary was to concede from a Circle of Hell, it would definitely be the 8th circle, Bolgia 9, where dwellest the "Sowers of Discord", including political discord.

The ninth circle, reserved for Traitors, would be a nice place for her to announce that she’s staying in until the convention.

Althouse:

In conclusion, I would like to apologize to Andrew Sullivan. On Thursday, I took him to task for calling Hillary Clinton a sociopath.

John Cole is at his breaking point:

It is mind-numbing. This isn’t an election anymore. This is a secret bet between Bill and Hillary ala Trading Places in which they bet how much bullshit they can make the electorate swallow.

A reader writes:

I had the great honor of clerking at the United States Supreme Court (and before that, clerking for a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals who was later appointed to the Supreme Court).  It is a wonderful, wonderful place to be – if you like quiet, if you don’t mind having a staff of perhaps six or so people total, if you enjoy spending your days reading briefs, opinions, and memos by kids a year out of law school, and if you like keeping a low profile.  (And if you don’t mind wading through the many cases that don’t make the headlines because — unless you are a law nerd — they are boring.)

In other words, even though it is a position of great power, it is one where daily life bears not the slightest resemblance to daily life for a person near the top of the Executive or Legislative branch.

  Your decisions are made in private, then issued publicly in written opinions mired in legal precedent.  You are not supposed to discuss publicly matters that are or may come before the court, and you are not supposed to elaborate much on your decisions after they are made.  And, although people may argue about how well this standard has been maintained, you are expected to behave with greater decorum than is expected of our elected officials.

I cannot claim to understand HRC or her ambitions.  But I suspect this kind of life would drive her crazy, and Bill even crazier.

But my fear is not that she will be offered this position and refuse it – there is no harm in that.  My fear is that she will accept it, and then turn it into something hyper-politicized, where every opinion is announced from the bench, and accompanied by public speeches condemning a conservative ruling, urging the legislature to overturn a result, encouraging protests, etc.  And what precedent might this set for the next time a Republican President gets a Supreme Court nomination?

I hope I am being far too pessimistic in my assessment of how HRC would behave as justice.  I would be delighted to be proven wrong.  Certainly I have no doubt at all that that she has the intellectual heft for the job. But I worry.

Dahlia Lithwick throws more cold water. I certainly don’t think Obama should run on appointing her to SCOTUS in advance. But if he’s president, dealing with the Clintons, finding a way to neutralize them, will be a priority. Putting her on the court gets rid of her from elective politics.

A reader writes:

I come from the mainstream Republican Party and LOTS of people otherwise willing to sit on their hands or possibly vote for Obama would vote against him on that point alone.  If such an agreement were made public then it would become a rallying point.  He would lose a lot of his Republican support.

In the presidency she would be gone in 4 or 8 years, on the SC she would be round for 30 years and maybe have more long-lasting effect than as President.

Point taken. After this recent nuttiness, my airing of the idea of a fusion ticket no longer seems to me like even a sensible political concession. It would be regarded as appeasement by the Clintons. And God knows what they’d do if given a new lease on life.