Tag: Hillary Clinton

Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton

They do have one thing in common: a pathological passion for secrecy. Arianna explains:

It’s not just that she’s a private person. There are plenty of public servants who are zealous about guarding their personal lives and equally zealous about keeping their public lives – and public policies – transparent. But, like Bush and Cheney, Clinton seems devoted to secrecy for its own sake.

As Bernstein shows, what was most shocking about her handling of the health care fiasco during her husband’s administration wasn’t that she kept the plan secret from its critics, but that she kept it secret even from those who would have been champions of the plan had they known anything about it.

This passion for concealment is a pattern that, as Bernstein demonstrates, has been repeated throughout Clinton’s life. It was there in the head-scratching decision to hide her college thesis from public view because it was about radical organizer Saul Alinsky. It was there in her refusal for 30 years to admit that she had failed the bar exam the first time she took it. It was there in the way she glossed over in her memoir her summer internship at the law firm of Treuhaft, Walker, and Burnstein — one of the most renowned left-wing law firms in the nation. It was there in the way she handled the Whitewater and Travelgate investigations, which, as Bernstein told me, "ended up unnecessarily prolonging them."

Bernstein quotes Clinton lawyer Mark Fabiani as saying of Hillary and Whitewater: "She would do anything to get out of the situation. And if that involved not being forthcoming [in releasing documents and other materials] she herself would say, ‘I have a reason for not being forthcoming.’" And he reports that then-White House advisor George Stephanopoulos described Hillary’s responses to the various scandals of the Clinton presidency as "Jesuitical lying."

One way to continue and compound the secrecy and paranoia of the Bush-Cheney years is to put Clinton back in the White House.

A Dissident Among The Hillary-Bots

The monied homos of Hollywood just love Hillary Clinton. And they don’t like it if anyone dares actually question her at a fundraiser. Here’s the North-Korean-style set-up for Clinton’s confab:

When it came time for a Q&A, Clinton called on a girl in the seventh grade, who asked her about breaking through glass ceilings.

The Great Leader will bring us all to enlightenment. Especially the children who need proper guidance and inspiration. Gag. Then some candor:

I am the man who suggested that the senator’s answer to a single question felt – well, sorry – a little bit like a set-up. In retrospect, I was not particularly polite, though I didn’t set out to be rude, and did preface my inquiry with a declaration of hope that she becomes the next president, which I repeated even through the smattering of boos and gasps that were directed my way. (Maybe in Manhattan, the response would have been different.) … People applauded her and glared at me. The young lady in charge of the mike hissed at me, and a couple I knew accused me of being cynical AND naive at the same time. (True, that.) And that ultimately I had been the only one there who had a problem with the thing. (Also, true, sadly.)

Don’t mess with her or her cronies. They’re ruthless.

Remembering Hillary

We have no excuse if Hillary Clinton becomes president. We know what and who she is. In this respect, Elizabeth Kolbert’s review of the new Hillary books is well worth a read. This passage highlights two central aspects of her political character that will not change if she becomes president. Nothing will ever be more important to Hillary Clinton than Hillary Clinton. And her combination of self-righteousness and paranoia is a toxic one. The healthcare fiasco revealed the worst of it, particularly her early decision to warn Senators not to oppose her will:

At a retreat for Democratic senators in the spring of 1993, Clinton was asked whether it was realistic to pursue such an ambitious health-care program, given her husband’s many other legislative initiatives. She responded that the Administration was prepared to "demonize" those who opposed the task force’s recommendations. "That was it for me in terms of Hillary Clinton," Senator Bill Bradley, of New Jersey, told Bernstein. "You don’t tell members of the Senate you are going to demonize them. It was obviously so basic to who she is. The arrogance. The assumption that people with questions are enemies. The disdain. The hypocrisy."

Few have put it better.

Hillary’s “Botox”

Not so much. Just so the Democrats understand, this is nothing compared to the avalanche of anti-Hillary trivia and bile that will be unleashed if she gets the nomination. It may not be fair, but it’s a reality. If the Democrats want to save the Republican right, if they want to reboot the entire VRWC, they know what to do. Support Clinton.