Report Could Torpedo Hillary Clinton’s Prez Plans
December 16, 2005
Two Washington pundits are warning that Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential plans may depend on whether congressional Democrats can continue to keep Independent Counsel David Barrett’s final report on IRS abuses during the 1990s under wraps.
“Prominent Democrats in Congress have spent much of the last decade in a campaign to suppress Barrett’s report,” columnist Robert Novak reported yesterday. “Its disclosures could dig deeply into concealed Clinton administration scandals.”
Notes Fox News Radio’s Tony Snow: “By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance.”
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Peter Paul Asks Hillary: When Will You Correct Your 3 False FEC Returns and Refund the $1 Million Plus?
December 9, 2005
Neither a landmark civil suit for fraud, an FEC complaint for fraud, press conferences in Beverly Hills and the National Press Club in Washington attended by DNC representatives, a Robert Novak article syndicated in 300 newspapers, a demand letter hand delivered to her Senate chambers, nor a special ABC 20/20 half hour television expose, all detailing Hillary’s role in the largest campaign finance fraud on record, could deter Hillary from allowing a third fraudulent FEC report to be filed by her Senate campaign treasurer on the last day of July, 2001.
Now, all of the principal allegations that were made, in every way possible in 2000, have been corroborated in the first ever indictment and trial of a Senator’s finance director for election fraud. The FBI has submitted an affidavit confirming that Peter Paul personally contributed more than $1.2 million to Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign. The FBI confirmed that the contributions he made were hidden by Hillary’s campaign and never reported, making the contributions illegal per se. Yet Hillary, and her campaign treasurer Andrew Grossman, continue to this day to defy the law that requires her campaign (at her direction, as the candidate with personal knowledge of the fraud) to correct the three false FEC returns and immediately refund the contribution that they now know is illegal.
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Dick Morris: Hillary can’t have it both ways
December 8, 2005
Worried that the left-wing Democratic Peace Train may be leaving the station without her, Hillary Clinton is scrambling for a seat by moving away from her carefully crafted hawkish support of the Iraq war. But she can’t join the left body and soul because she still needs to show how tough she is on national security issues, so she is trying to craft her own “third way†on Iraq.
All she has succeeded in doing, however, is fudging her position, muddying it up, but convincing nobody on the right or on the left.
Hillary became a hawk in the first place because she realizes that the chief obstacle to a female presidency is the concern by both sexes that a man might be better at handling issues such as national defense and security. To have a realistic chance at winning the White House, the Hillary Clinton of It Takes a Village and healthcare reform must take a back seat to Hillary the Hawk, an American incarnation of the likes of Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir and Indira Ghandi.
As if to underscore the point, her friends and aides have worked with the Hillary supporters at ABC to craft the weekly show “Commander in Chief,†portraying a Hillary-like female president coping successfully with national-security issues.
But her long-term strategy of positioning herself as a hawk is increasingly running afoul of the gathering momentum on the left opposing the war in Iraq. She now faces a Senate primary fight next year from a hard-left liberal in New York state, and it is not difficult to envision a revitalized Al Gore or John Kerry challenging her from the left in 2008.
As happened in the 1960s, a new left is emerging around opposition to a war, leaving behind old-style liberals who support the invasion and grinding them underfoot. Hillary could be marginalized in 2008 just as Hubert Humphrey was in 1968 and she is determined to prevent it.
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Bill Sets Stage For Hill Run
December 7, 2005
Bill Clinton may have fired the opening salvo in his wife’s 2008 presidential campaign last night when he answered a supporter’s shouted question about whether Hillary would run for president with these words: “We’ll get into that.”
The former commander-in-chief’s response punctuated a 10-minute speech that could have easily been on behalf of a presidential candidate rather than Sen. Hillary Clinton’s re-election campaign.
Clinton ripped into the Republican leadership in Washington — though not by name — for everything from sending an Exxon executive to a global-warming conference in Montreal to job losses at General Motors.
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4-year scandal of the 9/11 billions
December 4, 2005
Just two days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, with the nation still in deep collective shock, President Bush met in the Oval Office with Sens. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.
Schumer gave the commander in chief first-hand details of our city’s devastation and the horror, then told him New York needed at least $20 billion to recover and rebuild.
Without hesitation, Bush agreed.
So whatever happened to the President’s promise, which was later increased to $21.4 billion? And, what happened to the money we did get? Did it go to those who needed help the most? Or did some of it end up lining the pockets of the wealthy, the well-connected and hucksters who played the system?
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