Just Say No To Hillary Clinton

There’s been a great deal of discussion in the past couple of weeks about the Barrett report. And now that we are back from our brief holiday respite, we are going to try and simplify things a bit. In 1994 David Barret launched a probe into alleged IRS abuses. The probe become a two pointed spear that looked into allegations that the Clintons were using the IRS to persecute not only their political enemies - but potential witnesses against them, and into Clinton Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros. Some of those targeted by the IRS for audits were women who had accused President Clinton of unwanted sexual advances and even rape. These include Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broddrick and Elizabeth Ward Gracen. Cisneros as some may recall pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI about money he paid to a former mistress. For a timeline of events regarding his trials and tribulations click here.
Now back to the Barrett report. The report has been hidden from public view, and by all accounts, over 100 pages of the 400 page report have been redacted. On December 9th Tony Snow published a piece in townhall.com calling for the report to be published.

“No wonder they call us the Stupid Party,” said a disgusted Republican operative in Washington. “You’ve got to wonder what these guys were thinking.”

At issue was the publication of a report by David Barrett, an independent counsel who has spent the better part of a decade looking into some of the most hair-raising allegations of presidential malfeasance in American history.

Like most independent counsels, Barrett didn’t set out on such a mission. He was assigned the duty of looking into whether former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros committed tax fraud in trying to cover up payments to a former mistress.

Yet, as published reports have indicated, he soon discovered that he was onto something much bigger. He found unsettling evidence that Justice Department officials were actively interfering with the probe and even conducting surveillance of Barrett and his office. Worse, there were indications that Team Clinton was using key players at the IRS and Justice to harass, frighten and threaten people who somehow got in the former president’s way.

The pattern was set early on, when the White House sicced the FBI on Billy Dale, who had served as the director of the White House Travel Office since the days of John F. Kennedy. They mounted a baseless probe of Dale’s finances, while chasing after his daughter, his sister and others. Dale was guilty of holding a job coveted by presidential pal Harry Thomasson. But rather than simply firing Dale, the Clinton White House chose to destroy him.

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.

Democrats know this. Using provisions in the independent-counsel statute that permit people named in a report to review the allegations against them and file rebuttals, attorneys close to the Clintons have spent the better part of five years reviewing every jot and tittle of the charges arrayed against their clients and friends. full story

Also according to Tony Snow

If Barrett has found evidence that officials at Justice and the IRS served as a praetorian guard, that means some bureaucrats felt it appropriate or beneficial to ignore their duty to the public and instead to perform dirty work for the people who oversee their budgets.

Another big “if”: If such behavior were covered up, the malefactors would conclude that they may do the same thing again for other presidents.

Something stinks, and the only way to get at the truth is to release the full report. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who fought a lonely battle to ensure the document’s publication, is furious. So is House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc. The question is whether Republican leaders Bill Frist and Denny Hastert will step in and ensure the report’s publication, or whether they’ll just sigh and look the other way.

So this brings us to the present and how this might impact Hillary. Hillary’s college friend, Margaret Milner Richardson, headed the IRS at the time the alleged abuses occurred. If the report shows that any of the implied abuses took place, this could indeed affect Hillary’s chances of even winning the nomination. Only time will tell, but you can do your part. Heed Tony’s call:

Release the Barrett Report
Republican Congressmen are preventing the release of key portions of the Barrett Report–Independent Counsel David Barrett’s investigation into a laundry list of Clinton Administration crimes. Republican leadership needs to hear from you. Demand the Barrett Report be released in its entirety. Call:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN)

• DC: (202) 224-3344

• TN: (615) 352-9411

• http://frist.senate.gov/

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL)

• DC: (202) 225-2976

• IL: (630) 406-1114

• http://www.house.gov/hastert/

Well the mighty Clinton machine just keeps rolling along doesn’t it? They have managed to scare the pants off of potential Republican donors in New York. So much so that there just were not enough Repubs will balls enough to put the cash up for Pirro’s run. We also think there’s a fair bit off sexism at play here. For some reason, Jeanine just couldn’t get the old white boys who control the cash to like her enough to back her. We think it’s a real shame. She has the makings of a tough New York Senator. Let’s just hope the money boys pony up for run at Attorney General.

ALBANY, N.Y. - After weeks of pressure from her own party to drop out, Republican Jeanine Pirro abandoned her struggling campaign to unseat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and announced Wednesday that she will run for New York attorney general instead. “I have decided that my law enforcement background better qualifies me for a race for New York State attorney general than a race for the United States Senate,” Pirro, the Westchester County district attorney, said in a statement.

With her campaign against Clinton in trouble, Pirro had been under strong pressure from top state GOP leaders to make the switch.

The move leaves Republicans with two active candidates for the Senate nomination: former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, who is not well known statewide, and an even less well known tax attorney from the Catskills region, William Brenner.

Some supporters expect New York City lawyer Edward Cox, a son-in-law of President Nixon, to consider re-entering the Senate race. Cox withdrew in October after Republican Gov. George Pataki endorsed Pirro.

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Sorry we’ve all been away for awhile, but with Christmas right around the corner, it gets pretty hectic this time of year. The news cycles lately have been concentrating on the elections in Iraq, so we decided to lay low a bit. So low that we almost missed this juicy tidbit in a recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday. But never fear, better late than never, and all that tripe. Anyway, the results were pretty intreresting, especially on the Republican side. Not so much that Rudy was ahead, but that Condi was third, and Mit Romney is way behind. On the Dem side, Hillary is WAY out in front of any possible competition, and as we have said all along, she WILL BE the Dem nom for 2008. Of course, calling Hillary a New Yorker would be like calling McCain a Conservative!

If the results of a recent poll pan out, voters will see two big names from New York on the ballot in November 2008.

Those names are Democrat Hillary Clinton, the state’s junior U.S. senator, and Republican Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City.

The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday indicated Clinton and Giuliani were the early favorites to win their respective party’s nomination.

But those polled said they believe the former first lady would have a smoother path to the nomination than her GOP counterpart.

Conducted December 9-11, the telephone poll asked 393 registered voters who described themselves as Republicans and 446 registered voters who described themselves as Democrats who they were most likely to support in their respective primaries.

The survey had a sampling error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

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The Left wants us out of Iraq, but the majority of the country wants us to stay and finish the job. What’s a poor girl to do? Hillary has tried so hard to seem moderate and mainstream (a tactic that has been working by the way) that she is really pissing off her far left base. Now those loonies on the Left appear to have had enough. On Saturday she was heckled by her own “people” as she gave a speech in her home state of Illinois. Remember this all you New Yorkers out there. Hillary’s attempt to “appear to be what she is not” is NOT going unoticed by her true core supporters. Let’s see if they have enough clout to really turn up the heat on her. We doubt it.

WASHINGTON - Anti-war activists furious with Sen. Hillary Clinton are vowing to bird-dog her everywhere she goes, starting with a swanky Manhattan fund-raiser tonight.
Clinton’s letter last week clarifying her position on Iraq - which included rejecting a timetable for withdrawal - fanned the anger of some war opponents, who decided to launch a campaign against New York’s junior senator.

“We’re calling it Bird-Dog Hillary,” said Medea Benjamin of the peace group Codepink.

“I’m so mad at her,” said Nancy Kricorian, Codepink’s New York City coordinator. “We will dog her wherever she goes.”

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It seems that Hillary has gotten herself into a wee bit of trouble with her Left Wing base while she tries to walk the “I’m for, but I’m really against the Iraq war line”. This came in from Tim Robbins this morning via Drudge:

Actor Tim Robbins Lashes Out: ‘Hillary Clinton can kiss my butt… That ridiculous, ridiculous statement she’s made on Iraq.’ Comments made Thursday on AIR AMERICA’S ‘Morning Sedition’…

And this just in from Jimmy Breslin:

Where’s Hillary on Iraq?

Beautiful. I am in receipt today of a mailing from the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign. This is different from the letter she sent out by e-mail in a rush. I don’t know who got the e-mail. She announces it is 1,600 words long. That much of her sentences could end reading. The letter I got is more than a dead dry political mailing. I found it such compelling reading that I drop everything and share with you promptly and thus prominently.

It is a four-page questionnaire with the headline, “2005 Critical National Issues Survey.” I thought that this was about the more than 2,000 dead in Iraq. Not even close. I read on, thinking that the pamphlet might tell me what Hillary stands for, as she is pretty much a blank thus far.

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My, my, it seems the left wing is getting nervous about it’s poster girl. Could it be that they are finally starting to realize that Hillary is duplicitous?