The Allure Of Hillary Clinton

I had the sudden, strange realization today that for as long as I’ve been alive, Hillary Clinton has been somewhere in the universe, trying to become President. She was the first serious female politician I was ever aware of, and she was always reaching. My political awakening, which happened as a teenager in the late 1990s, is forever imprinted with disjointed images of Hillary and Bill Clinton in the post-Monica period: she refused to hold the president’s hand, he looked sheepish every time a photo appeared of them together, and Chelsea Clinton.. I can’t even imagine what she was going through.

The Hillary Clinton time in the White House was marked by scandal and that is what I remember of it. I never hated her the way others seemed to. I did think she was a shrill female, the very worst kind, but it didn’t seem to be personal. It was almost as if she was a cardboard cut-out of a 1960s feminist and so it was easy (perhaps too easy) to dismiss her. I found the unflattering pictures of her to be unfair, but I think all pictures that show women aging and looking less than perfect are unfair. What is their crime? Just aging? Failure to be beautiful at the exact moment somebody pulls out a camera? So sue them. Sue me.

Rush Limbaugh’s remark during the 2008 primaries that people don’t want to see a woman age in office struck me as intensely painful because it sounds true. If there are websites dedicated to all the unflattering pictures of Hillary now, I could only imagine the proliferation if she were president. I think the media’s treatment of both Hillary and Sarah Palin were deplorable. They treated Hillary like she was not even there, and they treated Palin with scorn.

She had always insisted on being part of the political discourse, but I only started to dislike Hillary when she ran for Senator of New York. It seemed like (and was) a cheap political ploy – a really silly thing for a former First Lady to do. But she campaigned and won, and so kudos to her. At this point, I knew that I was a conservative and her socialist ideas were anathema to me. She seemed like a relentless political monster, much more so than even Bill, and I actually respected her for that, even if I did find such a gluttony for power a little off-putting.

After serving her time in the Senate, she made it known she was running for President. I’m not a Democrat, of course, but if I were, I’d have voted for Hillary to be the candidate for 08. I can honestly say if the choice was Hillary or Obama, I’d take Hillary. Here is why: Hillary would not have passed the monstrous health care bill that Obama did, and Hillary’s political aims are much more in line with liberals and Democrat’s views. She is coo-coo about child rights, all that It Takes A Village crap, but I think there is really nothing she could have done, no policy she could have implemented that would have the huge, sweeping change that Obama has wrought. She’s in bed with the feminists and abortion advocates, but could she do, make Roe v. Wade super-legal or something? Extra legal? Even expanding abortion to the maximum would not have affected as many people as Obama is affecting. Her economic policies would have been much more financially stable and sustainable for the country. She would have probably had a very similar response to Iraq and Afghanistan as Obama (and Bush), and she’d have the cache of being the First Woman President.

Instead she is the Second Woman Secretary of State, or put another way: the first white female Secretary of State. And she’s been a weird one. She’s not very vocal, she’s not seen on tv very much. I think she might be secretly plotting to run for President in 2012. Another thought occurs to me just now. I wonder if Obama will decide not to run in 2012, and run Hillary instead, thereby giving the Democrats a shot at holding the presidency for a full eight years. He’d have to fall on his sword to do that though and I just don’t see Obama subjugating himself or giving up power willingly. Still, Hillary’s silence brings up the question: what’s she doing?

Plotting, no doubt. But what?

In a weird way, I like having Hillary around. There’s a certain comfort in knowing every day that the sun will rise gloriously over Manhattan and set over Malibu, the pyramids will stand for a thousand more years, and Hillary Clinton will still be thirsting for power.

The Next Steps

I believe that the President and his party will now completely forget about health care and move on to immigration and global warming legislation. They don’t want us to remember that they passed health care – they’d much rather we forget so we re-elect them in November. The only two “benefits” of the bill that will kick in immediately are the elimination of pre-existing conditions and allowing 26 year old “children” stay on their parent’s health insurance. I believe this will not be a smooth, orderly process. Furthermore, most of the “benefits” don’t kick in for four years, and we’re going to be paying higher taxes immediately. Those taxes are going to hurt everyone, not just “the rich”. So this monstrosity is going to be an albatross around their necks. We mustn’t allow them to forget. We must not forget what they have done.

Yet they will try to distance themselves. They’ll move on to other things. They might get immigration through – but I doubt they’ll get cap and trade. So when sanity is restored in the 2010 midterms, Obama will be slowed. Of course, by then the damage will have been done.

Mark Levin is filing suit this morning to repeal the bill. Attorneys General of thirty-three states are going to file suit. There is hope, however remote, this can be slowed. If we have enough seats in the House and Senate after November 2010, we still can’t get this repealed; Obama won’t repeal his own bill. But in 2012, with a new president, we can start overturning this monstrosity.

I don’t think that the Democrats will see power again for twenty years. Maybe longer. They’ve proved they can’t be trusted. They’ve demonstrated for us all that they’re a bunch of corrupt, slimy politicians who would sell out their own mothers for a taste of power.

One positive: No Republican’s fingerprints. No Republican voted for this. I think being the Party of No is appropriate for the next two years until we can get some real numbers in Congress. Until then, our guys should do whatever they can to delay, obfuscate and confuse the opposition.

After November, we’ll own both houses. In 2012, we will finally be free of Obama and his communist agenda. Just hang tight.

Congress Disappears As Health Care Looms

The Hill reports that Rush Limbaugh has asked his listeners to call their representatives in Congress to express displeasure with the health care bill and urge them to vote against it.

Great idea.

But they aren’t answering the phone. And they don’t seem eager to hear from us anyway. Ultimately, I do not believe the voices of ordinary Americans matter anymore. The people who have the power to enact this grotesque piece of garbage care nothing about what the people who must abide by it actually think. And with the Slaughter Rule in play, our voices matter even less. By using the Slaughter Rule, Pelosi provides some protective cover for the members who would otherwise be bashful about seeing their constituents at home after the vote. In other words, not only is this monstrosity going to be pushed through, there will be very little accountability for it.

I watch the congressional calculus with interest, attempting to divine where the votes are. Kucinich changed to a “yes” this morning after his initial no, a protest for lack of a public option. His ride on Air Force One with President Obama to his home district was a not-so-subtle enticement to hear the President out. But what scares me is that Kucinich was so far left (he wants only a single payer system) that for him to come around to the Senate bill, he must have been promised something. My gut tells me that Obama shared the truth with Kucinich: that this was just a first step. Single payer is coming. Be patient. Vote for the bill, and help craft an even more massive single-payer system.

Other votes seem to be shifting for and against. A source in the US Senate tells me he still believes it won’t make it through the House. He claims the political risk to House members is too great to pass the health care bill via the Slaughter Rule, and it has become so toxic that even some hard-core supporters are peeling away. On the other hand, some who voted No initially are voting Yes this time. Jason Altimire of PA, a blue dog, is voting yes with concerns.

I know Altimire. I once knew him very well. This surprises me. But whatever, he’s not the only one.

The focus of Republicans seems to be that if health care gets passed, we’ll have a single-payer system in no time, which is true. But I haven’t seen anyone speaking about a more immediate threat. If Obama manages to grease this to his desk, the fortified Democrats will push hard for other liberal initiatives: cap and trade, immigration, etc. Since they know they’re going to be voted out in November, their confidence in creating a liberal paradise would be untethered by reality. And in the next seven months, we could see our country become, literally, a place none of us recognize.

This bill must be stopped. Republicans are watching, dismayed, as they’re repeatedly cut out of the process. American citizens who view the bill with disdain are being turned away from the phones. So we’re powerless but enraged. My country is changing; it is becoming Cuba. Our elected officials are shredding the Constitution; we have no recourse. Our lives will become beholden to the State if this passes. I want it to stop, but I don’t know how. So I just wait and watch and count the votes, waiting to see if we have another week of normalcy, another month. Even after 9/11, I didn’t feel this scared. We adjusted, as a country. As Americans. We healed. But I don’t know if we can ever heal the rift caused by out of control socialism.

Obama Judicial Nominee Sensitive to “Sexual Sadists”

An editorial in the Washington Times highlights a disturbing trend among Obama cabinet members – that is, a severe lack of qualification. In this case, one of President Obama’s judicial nominees is of the opinion that the “sexual sadism” of a multiple rapist-murderer was “clearly a mitigating factor” that argued against executing the murderer and perhaps even against convicting him in the first place.

Or that a type of Megan’s Law sex-offender registry should be overturned because it “stigmatizes nondangerous registrants.” Even a child-porn convict should serve a sentence less than half as long as official guidelines suggest if his mental and emotional condition is fragile.

U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny of Connecticut, appointed by President Clinton, thinks all of this crazy nonsense and has so ruled or argued. Yet on Feb. 24, Mr. Obama nominated Judge Chatigny for promotion to a seat on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Senate Judiciary Committee rushed to schedule his nomination hearing for March 10 before Republican objections delayed it.

Damn those obstructionist Republicans.

The editorial (no author is named) goes on to relate a most amazing event:

The judge said he had been convinced that “sexual sadism” was a mental disorder that made Ross as much victim as criminal. Said the judge about Ross: “He’s at Cornell, he had this classmate, this petite Asian girl who is sweet, and he likes her, and he winds up killing her because he has this affliction, this terrible disease … this awful, uncontrollable impulse to sexually brutalize this person he liked and then kill her. … Michael Ross may be the least culpable, the least, of the people on death row.”

There ya go. You wanna kill eight people, it’s because you have a “terrible disease,” not because you’re an animal that needs to be put down like a bad dog.

I don’t understand how a judge, who sees these crimes against children and women committed every day, can honestly put the defendant’s “emotional condition” before that of the victims who are wearing toe tags. Law is a tricky thing; you have to remove yourself from the emotional aspects of it, blind yourself to the gore that humanity occasionally exposes, and simply judge an action (crime) on the facts. But this judge is not blind to the facts, only blind to the expectations that one has of a person in that position. He is shirking his duty.

Unfortunately, he is hardly unique. Many judges suffer the same surplus of “empathy” for defendants. Furthermore, he seems right at home in an administration that welcomes tax cheats, Maoists, and a circus of others out of step with American norms.

Nancy Pelosi: Feminist Icon

Thank you, Nancy Pelosi for proving to the world that women can be just as brutal, underhanded, rough, lying, conniving and disgusting as any man. You’ve completely smashed the myth that women are the fairer sex, or that we have any tendency toward cooperation rather than competition. You’ve proven we can get dirty.

Women are now officially “equal”. Any mystery that remained about our gender has now been bashed. The feminist dogma that there would be no war if women ran the world has now been definitively disproven. Nancy Pelosi has now officially proved that war is nastier with women running it and that unlike when men fight a war, women have absolutely no sense of honor.

Thank you, Nancy Pelosi.

Rep. John Murtha Has Died

I wish I cared more than I do. I don’t feel anything. I didn’t know him, and the fact that he said some truly horrendous things about our Marines has made me biased toward him. I find him repugnant. I’m not “glad” he’s dead, but I just don’t care.

Also, I find it strange that a person can live to be 77 years old, with his friends and family “at his bedside when he died” according to reports, and have all the privilege that comes with being a member of the ruling class and when he dies, the world is traditionally supposed to “be sad.” Why? Even when George Bush dies, provided he dies a natural death in his old age, I will not “be sad.” I never understood the surprise that people have about death, particularly older people in ill health. No death is sad if he lived a good life. When one has the opportunity to do good, or still has many years left to live and is taken suddenly, real grieving is understandable.

I think natural death is one you deserve. If you take care of you body, you live longer and healthier. If you smoke and hang out with murderers, you live a shorter life.

I suppose if the state of Pennsylvania believes Murtha was doing good work, maybe they will be sad to lose an advocate. But I somehow doubt that, in this political environment.

I hope that he had a genuinely happy life, in addition to a successful one. That is the best, highest blessing I can bestow upon anyone – enemy, friend, stranger or lover – and I bestow it upon John Murtha now.

One Lucky Kid

John Edwards’ admission that he fathered a child with former campaign videographer, Rielle Hunter, has shocked exactly nobody. But I’m curious why we even care. Is he a celebrity? Is he important?

This sleazy ambulance-chasing lawyer has lied to the American people no fewer than a thousand times. It is so mundane now that it barely even qualifies for news. His lies are compounded by his sexual escapades while his wife was fighting cancer. And his stupid wife defended him. I no longer pity her; I find them equally as repulsive. I remember reading an interview in the Oprah magazine with Elizabeth Edwards in which she said that her 28,200 square foot home, the largest in the county, was “not excessive” and actually quite cozy. That is great that Edwards can afford that home; I am a capitalist and am always happy when I see people making tons of money. I love money even when retarded people like the Edwards have it. Yet his policies – economic and environmental – ensure that it will be more difficult for others to amass the kind of wealth the Edwards enjoy. That kind of hypocrisy is also mundane. But it’s still irritating. Be rich! Be filthy rich! Be obnoxiously rich! Be so rich you can buy solid gold toilets and floors made of diamonds, which you replace every year.

But don’t deny others the opportunity to do the same.

Though all this Edwards drama, nobody is mentioning that this skeezeball was John F. Kerry’s vice president pick when he ran in 2004. (John Kerry served in Vietnam.) I wonder if those same people who mock Sarah Palin as VP are equally as derisive as John Edwards, who has actually done something grotesque. I’m sensing no.

I feel sorry for that kid. She’s growing up with a mother who is an adulterer, and was irresponsible enough not to take precautions while having sex with her paramour. Her father has basically said that she was a giant mistake. Edwards has said he and Hunter have a financial arrangement to care for the child, but nothing is going to make up for the fact that the child’s father is John Edwards.

Some things, money can’t buy.

My View Of Abortion Has Been Justified

I’m pro-life in all circumstances. I’ve often expressed concern about the pro-life movement, however, because while I believe their positions are correct, I’m not sure what their end-game would look like. In an ideal world, would abortion be illegal? My opinion is that there should be a moral imperative to keep one’s child – not a legal one. I would like to see our country have such a strong pro-life position that it just happens organically.

The reason I don’t want it to be illegal is because I don’t want the government to be involved in the decision at any point – even enforcement. My rationale is that if the government can allow you to have an abortion, it can also require you to have an abortion.

Sounds nutty, but look at what is happening at Copenhagen. Several speakers have suggested America adopt China’s one-child policy in order to curb overpopulation, and thus, “save the earth.”

If that doesn’t send a chill up your spine, you’re brain dead.

I don’t believe that Obama would sign something that required us to all have only one child. But I think once you accept the premise that overpopulation is a real thing, and we’re the ones causing the problem, you’re on the path to giving your reproductive choice to the government – the exact problem the pro-abortion crowd has with government involvement in abortion.

Do not allow the climate cult to take control of your country, your paycheck, and your progeny.

Don’t submit.

Government Money Is Fine

It was learned this week that Obama’s government is presently the only employment growth sector in the country – and they’re making bank. While they screamed bloody murder that good men like Jake DeSantis and other AIG executives received bonuses last summer, Obama’s administration is handing out huge bonuses with impunity. The Mainstream Media isn’t covering it. I wonder why?

Then on Saturday, the Senate passed a catchall spending package that includes a 2 percent pay raise for civilian federal workers. The fiscal 2010 omnibus spending package now heads to the White House for President Obama’s signature.

I’m pretty sure he’ll approve a 2 percent pay raise for himself.

Oh, and what did he do with the Nobel Peace Prize award of $2 million? I never heard that he gave it to charity. Or to the Treasury to pay down the deficit that he suddenly seems so concerned about after sinking us trillions into debt.

Unlike government workers, private industry workers are not permitted to work hard, earn bonuses, and make money that they keep. The rules are vastly different for the Obama Democrats.

Org Chart of Democrat Health Plan

Today, as the House votes on the Democrat pile-o-crap health care bill, I was mulling over the onerous amounts of bureaucracy already instilled in our daily lives, when I found this: