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Disgraced, Impeached Alcee Hastings Named To Hillary Clinton Campaign

By Tom Fitton

Staying with Hillary Clinton, it appears the New York Senator will have at least two former impeached public officials supporting her campaign for President of the United States:  Her husband, Bill Clinton, and Florida Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings.

Hastings, who was impeached as a federal judge for perjury and bribery, has been named one of Hillary Clinton's national campaign co-chairs.  In a statement to the press, Clinton said, "With [Hastings'] help, we will bring our message of change throughout Florida and across the country."

Appointing Hastings to a campaign leadership position certainly sends a message, but it has nothing to do with "change."  In fact, considering Hillary's sordid history of corrupt behavior, I'd say it signals more of the same.

Hastings is one of only six federal judges to be removed from office through impeachment for perjury and conspiracy to obtain a bribe.  In 1983, Hastings was mired in a scandal involving the solicitation of a $150,000 bribe in return for favorable treatment for defendants in a racketeering case before him.

In 1988, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly (413-3) to impeach Hastings.  In October 1989, following a trial, the Democratic-run Senate convicted Hastings and removed him from the bench.

Four years later Hastings did what any disgraced public official would do – he ran, and was elected, to Congress.

The evidence against Hastings is summarized in a letter I sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last November.  Incredibly, Pelosi, who was the Speaker-elect at the time, was considering Hastings to head the House Intelligence Committee.  After much public outcry, Pelosi thought better of it, and Hastings was denied the key intelligence post. 

Source:  Post Chronicle

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Patriotic’ Tax Hike

By: Amanda Carpenter

Just in time for the Fourth of July holiday, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y) equated higher taxes with patriotism during the third nationally-televised Democratic Presidential debate Thursday evening.

When asked if she believed Americans were paying enough taxes, Clinton praised billionaire U.S. investor Warren Buffett because, as she said, “He’s honest enough to say, look, tax me because I’m a patriotic American.”

She went on, “We have to change the tax system and we’ve got to get back to having those with the most contribute to this country.”

Buffett made headlines earlier this week when he said the wealthy should pay more taxes at a Manhattan fundraiser for Clinton’s campaign with a $4,600 per person price tag. Clinton raised $1 million at the event.

Because Buffett is the son of a former Republican U.S. Congressman from Nebraska, Clinton asked Buffett why he was a Democrat. He replied that Republicans were more likely to think "I’m making $80 million a year, God must have intended me to have a lower tax rate."

Buffett said: “The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

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Hillary concedes victory to Obama in dash for cash

BY Lynn Sweet

With the second quarter closing on Saturday, Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said in a memo the campaign expects to take in at least $27 million, conceding that Barack Obama will be collecting "significantly" more in April, May and June.

The Clinton campaign did not break down how much of that $27 million was for the primary and how much was given for the general election contest.

The only figure that counts politically is money raised for the primary election. Obama's second quarter haul, according to estimates of knowledgeable observers, could reach $30 million — most raised for the primary.

"To put that [$27 million] figure in some perspective, it is more than any Democrat has ever raised in the second quarter of the 'off' year," said Wolfson.

"While that figure is record setting, we do expect Senator Obama to significantly outraise us this quarter. Bottom line is that both campaigns will raise a great deal of money and that we will have all the resources we need to compete and win," Wolfson said.

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Experts Question Whether Clinton Campaign Finance Case Will Impact ‘08 Race

By Fred Lucas

The legal and political implications of a Hollywood mogul's lawsuit against Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton are not yet clear, but but legal experts are not holding their breath.

In some ways, it's old news with a new twist. The alleged corruption in high places occurred in 2000, when the then-first lady was seeking her first term as a U.S. senator from New York. That's when Hollywood mainstay Peter Paul produced a fundraising event that he says amounted to a nearly $2 million in-kind campaign contribution.

Paul at the time was majority co-owner, with comic book icon Stan Lee, of a publicly-traded Internet company, Stan Lee Media. The company later collapsed — as did Paul's relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton.

What is new is the potentially incriminating videotape of Hillary Clinton speaking with Paul, Lee and director Aaron Tonkin in the summer of 2000 about the forthcoming fundraiser, which featured such celebrities as Cher, Diana Ross and Brad Pitt.

The star-studded August 2000 event was later deemed to be a violation of federal campaign finance laws: The Clinton campaign had to pay a $35,000 fine to the Federal Elections Committee. Clinton's campaign finance director David Rosen was accused of lying to the FEC, indicted, but eventually acquitted.

Throughout, Clinton's staff said she played no role in planning the fundraiser. Yet the tape depicts Clinton expressing enthusiasm about the event and telling Paul to contact her aide any time to further plan details.

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Bill (& Hillary) Clinton Lulled Us Into War

Rudy Giuliani makes it clear that if he and Hillary Clinton are the nominees in 2008, she will have to answer why co-president Bill didn’t treat the 1993 WTC bombing as al-Qaida’s Pearl Harbor.

When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, Hillary told an American Bar Association luncheon: “If you vote for my husband, you get me. It’s a two-for-one, blue plate special.” So presumably, if she’s the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee, the opposite will be true: If you vote for Hillary, you get Bill.
One of Hillary’s campaign themes, in addition to the general conduct of the war on terror, will no doubt be a variation of the “Bush lied us into war” theme pushed by her party’s hard-left base and the likes of George Soros and the good folks at MoveOn.org.

First, she’ll have to explain why she was for the war in Iraq before she was against it. She’ll also have to explain what her co-president spouse meant in 1998 when he signed the Iraq Liberation Act. The legislation made the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein the official policy of the United States. Bush just carried it out.

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