HILLARY: NIXON-PLUS (BEWARE THE SYNERGY)

various | 7.07.05 | Mia T et al.

[Mia T]

 

HILLARY: NIXON-PLUS
BEWARE THE SYNERGY
Nixonian paranoia and fascistic mindset combine with clintonian megalomania, ineptitude and, most important, easy betrayal of America to make hillary clinton deadly dangerous for us all.

Mia T, 7.07.05

I know women who spend a significant amount of time analyzing Hillary's plastic surgery. They trace the growth of her chin from Wellesley and Yale, where it is recessed and quavering, to the Senate race, where it is out there and strong. They insist there's been substantial realignment of the axial balance, too: the breaking of the jawbone, the peeling-back of the skin and rearranging of the muscles, which creates a finer symmetry.

[Aside: David Duke required a similar makeover.--Mia T]

I have no idea if Hillary has had such facial surgery.

[Aside: Has the author really missed missus clinton's most recent surgery? Precisely, in 1999, as much a response to public knowledge of Monica as tidying up for her Senate run. Did the author actually fall for hillary's "back problem" feint that kept her, conveniently, at arm's length during the healing period, but oddly, camel-mounted globetrotting with Chelsea--hijabed to the hilt to hide the post-op swelling--jet-setting... recuperating en passant. On the public dime, no less.--Mia T]

But the truth doesn't matter.... Any conjecture, allegation, or accusation about Hillary becomes, if not the truth, a working metaphor. What is the most wrenching, painful, shameful thing she could have done (or had done to her) to have gotten this far? She would have done it (or endured it), don't you agree?

Not since Richard Nixon has the essential humanity (does she think what we think, feel what we feel, bleed what we bleed?) of a politician been so much the underlying issue. And, as with Nixon, I think it is fair to assume that with every step Hillary takes in her new political career, the debate over her relative goodness or essential evil (or amorality) will grow....

But she is a comic figure too.

Indeed, part of Hillary's problem in the Senate race, reflecting her own Nixon-like physical discomfort (has she ever looked relaxed in her clothes?), is that she's way too big for it (Nixon was too big when he tried to become governor of California). Certainly the visceral reaction she provokes -- from the anybody-but-Hillary anger on the part of her antagonists to the unease or embarrassment on the part of many of her supporters -- is much larger, and more complex, than a mere Senate race deserves. It is just another aspect of her dissonance, her imperviousness, her tone-deafness that she, possibly the most famous woman in the world, massively rich in the kind of personal-brand media-minded equity that really makes a power base in this age, is running for the Senate, a comparatively low-level, and trivial, job.

The question becomes, as it so often has over the past eight years, not "What can she do for us?" but rather "What are we going to do with her?"

She really doesn't know her place.

Now, there is an amount of you-go-girl credit she gets for that -- her ladyship standing for the house of commons. Equally, there is a lot of resentment she earns for her you-go-girlness -- certainly to the degree that it is perceived as entitlement (she has the right to fix health care). But the more complex sense she leaves probably derives less from her strength or arrogance than from her flat-footedness -- her interpersonal naïveté or incompetence. She can't fit in. She can't mingle. (Nor, like Margaret Thatcher, can she make this a virtue.) She's vibe-resistant. She really doesn't seem to get that people have mighty weird and nasty feelings about her (at all times, we are wondering and thinking the worst about her honesty, her ambition, and her marriage; Tim Russert might as well have asked: When was the last time you and Bill had sex?). She won't -- or can't bear to -- acknowledge her weirdness, either. When Russert evoked the Lewinsky troubles in her first Senate debate, she seemed genuinely surprised (prompting the question, what do she and Bill talk about in private?).

So the issue of who she is or isn't just sits there in the middle of the table. It's left as some Midwest, Wasp, uncomfortable thing, which, because we're not going to talk about it, she can't use or defuse.

Again, this is Nixon stuff, the stiff pretense, the denial, the literalness, the humorlessness.

She is awfully lucky to be running against Rick Lazio, who also has interpersonal problems (but of a different sort: She's hidden; he's callow). They are both uncharismatic and dweeby. They, in their awkwardness, stick out like sore thumbs. The issue then is, are you awkward and good (the naïf) or awkward and dark (Nixon)?

She is for the Democrats, as Nixon was for the Republicans, ideologically dependable (she's much more dependable than Bill; she's a left-of-center mensch). And that may well be her biggest strength in New York -- point for point, the issues are hers.

What's more, like Nixon, she has gotten herself so woven into the game, into the power structure, into the headlines of our time that we end up accepting this as a big and obvious advantage (which it probably is) -- she is inextricable.

Obviously, she's smart (at least she's a detail person, whereas Lazio, I say without any evidence whatsoever, probably is not). Or, anyway, she's a grind. (Here's a trick well known to human-resources departments: Always hire the Wellesley girls; they're precise and indefatigable. Here's another trick: Stay away from Vassar boys, like Rick; they're precious and need quite a bit of pampering.)

... She gives success a bad name. Nixon did, too.

It comes down to the calculation -- it's all so visibly about her getting what she wants. Her view of the world is a careerist's view, an upwardly mobile view, a media-conscious view....

Hillary, strangely more guileless and more literal than most, has never taken the proper steps to mask her desires and methods.

It's not just her moving opportunistically to New York; it's the broader theme of going wherever the winds of ambition blow (Nixon also suffered for his lack of a hearth -- suspicious Key Biscayne beachfront property doesn't count) that makes people turn up their I'm-rooted-in-this-community noses, even though few are so rooted. Who doesn't believe that she's gone from Westchester in a New York minute if she loses? Who doesn't think that if she wins, she'll be sleeping in Manhattan?

... All this striving, all this work, all this planning, and she hasn't found love, or respect, or even a home. Just like Nixon....

Achievement for achievement's sake -- that's what she stands for.

The fact that she has done all she's done and endured all she's endured and accomplished all she's accomplished and banked nothing for it makes her all the more suspect. Why does she do this? What is the reward? 

It's out of whack. It's neurotic....

"How could she have stayed with him?" is a question only partly about sexual humiliation. It's also about the whole bloody cost of trying to be more than we were probably meant to be....

So what is the lasting effect of being regarded like this? Hated, scorned, resented, and occasionally elevated as an object of pity?

Such popular antipathy drove Nixon, again and again, back into the force of the storm. Endurance became the rebuttal. And in the end, the paranoia that must inevitably come from the reality of being hounded drove him a little mad.

Surely, Hillary is our most defensive, press-hating, me-against-them politician since Nixon.

She is entirely armored (on the campaign trail, this is called managing the negatives). The difficulty of reading her, of seeing anything recognizable in her, that opacity -- which is also a look you get from too much plastic surgery -- comes from her fear and suspicion of us (oddly, her best chance of acceptance was probably in New York, the place where she would most be deconstructed and pulled apart). She knows she must keep us as far from her as she can. This has helped her run a pretty good campaign -- it's been all about control....

[H]er campaign message: She'll be a saintly sort of senator.

Nixon, similarly, with all appearances to the contrary, wrapped himself with such sanctimony.

But I'm not sure it isn't quite the opposite of this that holds our attention and is at the root of our Hillary interest or obsession. The Hillary who goes too far, grabs too much, and who is then, you can count on it, exposed, humiliated, and broken back down is a powerful thing to watch. This is a big-league struggle. This is morality-play stuff.

Hillary's Nixon Problem
Michael Wolff

The lessons Hillary drew from Watergate were not good ones.  Klein calls her "Nixon's disciple."

In a June 20 interview, Klein told Kathryn Jean Lopez of the National Review: "Like Nixon, Hillary is paranoid and has an enemies list.  Like Nixon, Hillary has used FBI files against her enemies.  Like Nixon, Hillary believes that the ends justify the means.  Like Nixon, Hillary has a penchant for doing illegal things."

Klein now finds himself a target of Hillary's wrath.  From the moment The Truth About Hillary launched,  major TV and cable talk shows which had scheduled interviews with Klein began cancelling.   At this writing, shows on the NBC, ABC, CBS,  MSNBC, Fox and CNN networks -- including ABC Good Morning, America; Chris Matthews' Hardball; Joe Scarborough; Paula Zahn; Fox and Friends; the John Gibson Show on Fox, and many more -- have all cancelled.

Only Sean Hannity has followed through and interviewed Klein on his Fox News show Hannity & Colmes as well as on his radio show.  It took guts to stay the course.  "I've had more political pressure than I've ever had in all my years in radio…" Hannity told Klein during the radio interview.

Most of Hannity's colleagues succumbed to the pressure.

"[T]he entire mainstream media -- NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC -- have blanked me out," Klein told blogger John Hawkins of RightWingNews.com.  "This is my fifth best seller in a row. I've  been on all of those networks for all my books up till this one book. I've been a constant guest on the 'Today' show, the 'Good Morning America'  show, you know, the Chris Matthews show, etc. Suddenly I'm anathema, and the reason I am is because the Clintons, Hillary in particular, have  threatened all these mainstream media outlets."

...In an end note to his book, Klein writes, "I did not find it surprising that my repeated requests for an interview with Senator Clinton were greeted by a shattering silence.  Nor did it come as a shock that many sources, fearing Hillary's power to exact retribution, asked to remain anonymous."

It is precisely Hillary's  penchant for witch hunts and enemy lists, as revealed, for instance, in the Filegate and Travelgate scandals, which disqualify her from high office, Klein argues.

The Woman Who Would Be President
By Richard Poe
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 5, 2005

 

THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER
Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992*

 

 

 

 

hear
*Thanx to Cloud William for text and audio

 

 

LEHRER: President Bush, your closing statement, sir.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Three weeks from now--two weeks from tomorrow, America goes to the polls and you're going to have to decide who you want to lead this country ...

On foreign affairs, some think it's irrelevant. I believe it's not. We're living in an interconnected world...And if a crisis comes up, ask who has the judgment and the experience and, yes, the character to make the right decision?

And, lastly, the other night on character Governor Clinton said it's not the character of the president but the character of the presidency. I couldn't disagree more. Horace Greeley said the only thing that endures is character. And I think it was Justice Black who talked about great nations, like great men, must keep their word.

And so the question is, who will safeguard this nation, who will safeguard our people and our children? I need your support, I ask for your support. And may God bless the United States of America.

(Applause)

 

hillary talks:ON TERROR

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deconstructing clinton… "just because I could"

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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"
CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA

an amazon.com review, too
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FReep rating of review HERE
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 COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

by Mia T, 7.3.05

issus clinton's profound dysfunction, her textbook case of paranoia and megalomania, her fascistic methods and mindset, are fast becoming impossible to conceal... even from the most casual observer.

And this is the case less because of the Klein book than because of hillary clinton's real-time reaction to it.

• By resorting to her old standbys, absolute media control and terror, i.e., blackballing and censoring, blackmailing and other threats, the clinton 'secret police,' hillary clinton exposes her fascistic methods and mindset.

• By exhibiting a differential reaction to Klein's "rape" charge, she exposes a consciousness of guilt in the Broaddrick rape

• By requiring cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind, "the smartest woman in the world" confirms that she ain't.
  

Old media have two choices--continue to play the access-journalism game and feed their own increasing irrelevance ... or band together to resist this sick, dangerous... person, end their 4th-estate malfeasance and protect the country from a second and likely fatal assault from this inept, corrupt, ruthless pair of egomaniacal demagogues.

Hillary clinton needs old media more than old media need hillary clinton.

Leni Riefenstahl was the film genius who outmaneuvered propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels to chronicle Hitler's 1934 Nuremberg rallies in perhaps the most notorious documentary ever filmed, Triumph of the Will. For sheer power, reach, and ruthlessness, however, the fascist Riefenstahl operation doesn't hold a candle to the Clinton agitprop machine...

Whereas Leni Riefenstahl symbolizes the naïve actress and director who is induced to deal with devils, Hillary Clinton is actor, director and--many would argue--devil, rolled into one willful, corrupt, vengeful, despotic, paranoic package.

And so we have today... here in America... in America!... Hillary Clinton and her media apparatchiks conducting a campaign of censorship-by-terror that is without precedent; without precedent even if we include in the calculus the despotic Clinton years....

Mia T
HILLARY CLINTONSTAHL

 

 

 

Mia T, June 9, 1999

The only way they can win is to convince people that we're space aliens.

bill clinton

 

With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
Of life at once untie.

Antony and Cleopatra V, ii, 304-05

eggy Noonan's excellent piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal is really the story of the death of democracy. At its core it is the description of the human double helix gone terribly awry, of a denatured protein grotesquely twisted, of two mutant, tangled strands of DNA, the basest imaginable of base pairs linked permanently, as firmly as guanine to cytosine, bill inexorably to hillary and conversely, doing what they do best, and doing it relentlessly.

Killing.

Killing insidiously.

Killing as they pose and pander and feel our pain.

My only complaint is with Peggy Noonan's title.
The Mad Boomer, doesn't begin to capture candidate clinton considered separately or even taken as the self-anointed "twofer," permanently conjoined at that cavity conspicuously empty except for ego, that place where brain and soul and guts and heart normally reside.

This is not to say that she -- that they -- are not both quite mad and of that self-indulgent, arrogantly, ignorantly solipsistic age sandwiched flatly between yesterday's innocence and tomorrow's insouciance. Rather, it is that their madness and their boomerism don't even begin to explain their noxious influence: The cloying, internally inconsistent clinton calculus. The unspoken clinton threats. They permeate the atmosphere like a coiling miasma, choking off all freedom.

Even in New York.

Especially in New York.

When she wrote "The New Colossus," Emma Lazarus hardly had in mind this pair of mutant, deadly, twisted aliens.

So forget Arkansas-Illinois carpetbaggery and standard issue muckraking. The clintons are aliens of quite another sort. They are extrinsic, not of this world. They are inhuman. They are dehumanizing.

You may recall that the first act of this story of two degenerates maintained by iterating idiots, farce of farce ad infinitum, was generated quite by accident by iterated AlGoreRhythm, who, it should be noted, is now himself the object of iterated calculation by said degenerates who want iteration 2004 all for themselves.

And thus the odd bit of bloody Gore in Act II: The ugly sight of a corrupt, bottom-heavy hillary self-impaled on the horns of a Treason-Dilemma- masquerading-as-a-Third-Term-Dilemma-masquerading-as-a-Senate-stampede, for example, or bill's recent unsolicited, underwhelming Times interview on the Gore candidacy.

Act I was called "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." Ostensibly the tale of the wife of a bloodthirsty crime boss who finds romance with a bland bookseller between courses at her husband's restaurant, it was in fact the Thyestean and moveable -- yet unmoving -- feast of hillary clinton at her husband's sham restitution. (Note the reciprocity. The sham restitution in Act II is all hillary's.)

Food, color coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism were the exotic (if mostly horizontal) fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern memoir which passed as ancient fable about nouveau riche rapacity.

Not for the faint at heart, Purple Hearts or queazy stomachs, this depiction of the gross debasement of America was heavily peppered with irony and dark humor throughout.

Although she baked no cookies, didn't do illicit land or cattle deals and stood by no man, hillary clinton starred in the triple role of the Cook, the Thief and his Wife. Her lover was played at once vaporously and in workmanlike fashion by the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt, with Janet Reno, between her stints rendering intermittent injustice for the Husband, as the reliable stand-in. Sidney Blumenthal was the stand-in for the Cook and Craig Livingstone the stand-in for the Thief. The last-minute addition of Christopher Hitchens as the snitch was a stroke of absolute genius notwithstanding its cerebral accident, its predictable-if-perfect pitch and its facile alliteration.

Although Act I had no rating, the new clinton soccer-mom directive will require a photo ID for any viewer without independent proof of illegal alien DNC <-> DNA sequencing.

In Act II, rabid anti-clinton voters, roughly 33% of the U.S. populace according to as-yet-unpodded pollsters, become increasingly aware that they are disappearing in droves and being replaced by alien pod replicas which have their physical attributes but lack all anti-clinton affect.

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

THE ALIENS

 

COPYRIGHT Mia T 1999

KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"
CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA

an amazon.com review, too
counter the clintonoids, keep it readily visible
FReep rating of review HERE
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THE OLYMPIC HILDABEAST FLOPS
hillary stupidly invokes clinton utter failure: 9/11


HILLARY CLINTONSTAHL
clinton agitprop machine censors truth about hillary


BEAUTY AND THE HILDABEAST

• JEANINE PIRRO: 30-year career fighting for the abused woman

• HILLARY CLINTON: 30-year career abusing women

CLINTONS' DOCUMENTED ABUSE OF WOMEN


hillary clinton: ABUSER, NOT VICTIM


retrograde feminist fraud positions herself as victim (again) in order to win White House
[FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!]


NOTE THE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN CLINTON REACTION TIME AND CONTENT TO THE TWO RAPE CHARGES


CATCHING THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KINGFISH
differential reaction to the two rape charges snares the clintons


CLINTON RAPES, REVISIONISM, USEFUL IDIOTS AND ENTROPY (an update)


1st Feminist Prez Impeached
(clinton, pushed by the "smartest woman in the world," managed to impeach himself)


HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue


JENNINGS DOES A DIMBLEBY: clinton legacy-RAGE redux


THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES ₃


THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES ₂


THE JEANINE PIRRO--HILLARY CLINTON VIRTUAL MATCHUP


Hillary vs. Jeanine?


JEANINE PIRRO: indefinite prison/psych-ward term for all rapists
(HILLARY CLINTON: 16-year oval-office term for 2 certain rapists)

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missus clinton's REAL virtual office update

coming soon! deletehillary.com
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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

[Mia T]

ping

[RockinRight]

Excellent response from Bush 41 there.

[joesnuffy]

Looks like Chelsea had similar plastic surgery...
That way she still looks somewhat like Hillary's plastic...

Making them still look related...

The surgeons even erased Chelsea's resemblance to Wes Hubble
(not that there was much)

The family that nips n tucks together ....

Pulling the wool over the rube's eyes

[Mia T]

Would that he had put it out there, explicitly--with evidence--and often, we would have been spared the grotesquerie and the danger.

[Mia T]

ping

[WorkingClassFilth]

Nice work. The timing fits - so does the pathology.

[doug from upland]

I just started the Klein book. And Hillary is much worse than Nixon. Hillary would have denied him legal counsel during Watergate.

[Mia T]

 

"Impeachment did not have to be for criminal offenses -- but only for a 'course of conduct' that suggested an abuse of power or a disregard for the office of the President of the United States ... A person's 'course of conduct' while not particularly criminal could be of such a nature that it destroys trust, discourages allegiance, and demands action by the Congress...The office of the President is such that it calls for a higher level of conduct than the average citizen in the United States."

Hillary Clinton, Democrat assistant, 1974
effort to impeach president Nixon

 

Well, with the help of the 100 corrupt and cowardly cullions, clinton walked. The senators' justification for their acquittal votes requires the suspension of rational thought (and, in the curious case of Arlen Specter, national jurisdiction).

Mia T, Musings: Senatorial Courtesy Perverted

THE OTHER NIXON

 

by Mia T, 01.11.99

Hypocrisy abounds in this Age of clinton, a Postmodern Oz rife with constitutional deconstruction and semantic subversion, a virtual surreality polymarked by presidential alleles peccantly misplaced or, in the case of Jefferson, posthumously misappropriated.

Shameless pharisees in stark relief crowd the Capitol frieze:

Baucus, Biden, Bingaman, Breaux, Bryan, Byrd, Cohen, Conrad, Daschle, Dodd, Gore, Graham, Harkin, Hollings, Inouye, Kennedy, Kerrey, Kerry, Kohl, Lautenberg, Leahy, Levin, Lieberman, Mikulski, Moynihan, Reid, Robb, Rockefeller, Sarbanes, Schumer.

These are the 28 sitting Democratic senators, the current Vice President and Secretary of Defense -- clinton defenders all -- who, in 1989, voted to oust U.S. District Judge Walter Nixon for making "false or misleading statements to a grand jury."

In 1989 each and every one of these men insisted that perjury was an impeachable offense. (What a difference a decade and a decadent Democrat make.)

Senator Herb Kohl (November 7, 1989):

"But Judge Nixon took an oath to tell the truth and the whole truth. As a grand jury witness, it was not for him to decide what would be material. That was for the grand jury to decide. Of all people, Federal Judge Walter Nixon certainly knew this.

"So I am going to vote 'guilty' on articles one and two. Judge Nixon lied to the grand jury. He misled the grand jury. These acts are indisputably criminal and warrant impeachment."

 

Senator Tom Daschle (November 3, 1989):

"This morning we impeached a judge from Mississippi for failing to tell the truth. Those decisions are always very difficult and certainly, in this case, it came after a great deal of concern and thoughtful analysis of the facts."  

 

Congressman Charles Schumer (May 10, 1989):  

"Perjury, of course, is a very difficult, difficult thing to decide; but as we looked and examined all of the records and in fact found many things that were not in the record it became very clear to us that this impeachment was meritorious."

 

Senator Carl Levin (November 3, 1989):

"The record amply supports the finding in the criminal trial that Judge Nixon's statements to the grand jury were false and misleading and constituted perjury. Those are the statements cited in articles I and II, and it is on those articles that I vote to convict Judge Nixon and remove him from office."

 

* * * * *

"The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself," observed the philosopher Hannah Arendt. "What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."

If hypocrisy is the vice of vices, then perjury is the crime of crimes, for perjury provides the necessary cover for all other crimes.

David Lowenthal, professor emeritus of political science at Boston College makes the novel and compelling argument that perjury is "bribery consummate, using false words instead of money or other things of value to pervert the course of justice" and, thus, perjury is a constitutionally enumerated high crime.

The Democrats' defense of clinton's perjury -- and their own hypocrisy -- is three-pronged. 

ONE:

clinton's perjuries were "just about sex" and therefore "do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense."

This argument is spurious. The courts make no distinction between perjuries. Perjury is perjury. Perjury attacks the very essence of democracy. Perjury is bribery consummate.

Moreover, (the clinton spinners notwithstanding), clinton's perjury was not "just about sex." clinton's perjury was about clinton denying a citizen justice by lying in a civil rights-sexual harassment case about his sexual history with subordinates.

TWO:

Presidents and judges are held to different standards under the Constitution.

Because the Constitution stipulates that federal judges, who are appointed for life, "shall hold their offices during good behavior,'' and because there is no similar language concerning the popularly elected, term-limited president, it must have been perfectly agreeable to the Framers, so the (implicit) argument goes, to have a perjurious, justice-obstructing reprobate as president.

clinton's defenders ignore Federalist No. 57, and Hillary Rodham's constitutional treatise on impeachable acts -- written in 1974 when she wanted to impeach a president; both mention "bad conduct" as grounds for impeachment.

"Impeachment," wrote Rodham, "did not have to be for criminal offenses -- but only for a 'course of conduct' that suggested an abuse of power or a disregard for the office of the President of the United States...A person's 'course of conduct' while not particularly criminal could be of such a nature that it destroys trust, discourages allegiance, and demands action by the Congress...The office of the President is such that it calls for a higher level of conduct than the average citizen in the United States."

Hamilton (or Madison) discussed the importance of wisdom and virtue in Federalist 57. "The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust."

(Contrast this with clinton, who recklessly, reflexively and feloniously subordinates the common good to his personal appetites.)

Because the Framers did not anticipate the demagogic efficiency of the electronic bully pulpit, they ruled out the possibility of an MTV mis-leader (and impeachment-thwarter!) like clinton. In Federalist No. 64, John Jay said: "There is reason to presume" the president would fall only to those "who have become the most distinguished by their abilities and virtue." He imagined that the electorate would not "be deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle."

(If the clinton debacle teaches us anything, it is this: If we are to retain our democracy in this age of the electronic demagogue, we must recalibrate the constitutional balance of power.)

THREE:

The president can be prosecuted for his alleged felonies after he leaves office. (Nota bene ROBERT RAY.)

This clinton-created censure contrivance -- borne out of what I have come to call the "Lieberman Paradigm" (clinton is an unfit president; therefore clinton must remain president) -- is nothing less than a postmodern deconstruction in which the Oval Office would serve for two years as a holding cell for the perjurer-obstructor.

Such indecorous, dual-purpose architectonics not only threatens the delicate constitutional framework -- it disturbs the cultural aesthetic. The senators must, therefore, roundly reject this elliptic scheme.

In this postmodern Age of clinton, we may, from time to time, selectively stomach corruption. But we must never abide ugliness. Never.

 

[bmwcyle]

bttt

[Mia T]

Nixonian paranoia and fascistic mindset plus clintonian megalomania, ineptitude and, most important, easy betrayal of America BUMP

[subterfuge]

In a June 20 interview, Klein told Kathryn Jean Lopez of the National Review: "Like Nixon, Hillary is paranoid and has an enemies list. Like Nixon, Hillary has used FBI files against her enemies. Like Nixon, Hillary believes that the ends justify the means. Like Nixon, Hillary has a penchant for doing illegal things."


Klein now finds himself a target of Hillary's wrath. From the moment The Truth About Hillary launched, major TV and cable talk shows which had scheduled interviews with Klein began cancelling. At this writing, shows on the NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox and CNN networks -- including ABC Good Morning, America; Chris Matthews' Hardball; Joe Scarborough; Paula Zahn; Fox and Friends; the John Gibson Show on Fox, and many more -- have all cancelled.

[blueberry12]

This is a related story (history).

[Mia T]

thanx for posting.

[Mia T]

Obviously, she's smart (at least she's a detail person, whereas Lazio, I say without any evidence whatsoever, probably is not). Or, anyway, she's a grind. (Here's a trick well known to human-resources departments: Always hire the Wellesley girls; they're precise and indefatigable.

Hillary's Nixon Problem
Michael Wolff

EXAMPLES OF MISSUS CLINTON'S TACTICAL 'BRILLIANCE'~

• 1st Feminist Prez Impeached
  (clinton, pushed by the "smartest woman in the world," managed to impeach himself)
  
  
• KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"
  CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA
  
  
• NOTE THE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN CLINTON REACTION TIME AND CONTENT TO THE TWO RAPE CHARGES
  • CATCHING THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KINGFISH
    differential reaction to the two rape charges snares the clintons
    
    

^{For more on hillary's brain, see:}

• HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
  "the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue
  

hillary's head revisited²:
hillary clinton's brain (such as it is)

 by Mia T

he smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy, " as Charles Kuralt once put it.

hillary clinton, by contrast, subsists on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind...

In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news."

(More Didion: "No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent.")

 

Mindless rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy

 

 

by Mia T, November 1999

 

ohn Podhoretz recently asked, "Whence comes Hillary clinton's reputation for brilliance?" For the answer, he intuitively, rather brilliantly in fact, looked to her anatomy and noted,"This isn't the first time she's shot herself in the foot."

The above anatomical analysis supports the Podhoretz thesis. Notwithstanding The Pod's erroneous conclusions concerning Hillary clinton's heart and nerve, he basically has it right. Anatomy is destiny...

Ian Hunter recently observed that our leaders are shrinking. "From a Churchill (or, for that matter, a Margaret Thatcher) to a [pre-9/11] Tony Blair; from Eisenhower to Clinton; from Diefenbaker to Joe Clark; from Trudeau to Chretien -- we seem destined to be governed by pygmies."

The pols understand their anatomical limitations well; they attempt to mitigate them with veneer. And so we suffer mindless alpha-beta-beelzebubba grotesquerie. . .

and rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy.

 

With all the media genuflecting before the press-conference podium of bill clinton, it bears remarking yet again that the clinton intellect (an oxymoron even more jarring than AlGoreRhythm and meant to encompass the cognitive ability of both clintons) is remarkable only for its utter ordinariness, its lack of creative spark, its lack of analytic precision, its lack of depth.

The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.

Politicos and reporters are not rocket scientists . . .

Professions tend to be self-selected, intellectually homogeneous subgroups of Homo sapiens. Great intellects (especially these days) do not generally gravitate towards careers in the media or politics. Mediocre, power-obsessed types with poor self-images do.

Thus, clinton mediocrity goes undetected primarily because of media mediocrity. ("Mediocrity" and "media" don't come from the same Latin root (medius) for no reason.) Insofar as the clintons are concerned, the media confuse form with substance, smoothness with coherence, data-spewing with ratiocination, pre-programmed recitation with real-time analysis, an idiosyncratic degeneracy with creativity.

Jimmy Breslin agrees. In Hillary Is the 'Me-First' Lady, Breslin laments:

"At the end of all these years and years that are being celebrated this week, the national press of America consists of people with dried minds and weak backbones and the pack of them can't utter a new phrase for the language or show the least bit of anger at a business or profession or trade or whatever this business is that is dying of mediocrity."

Listen carefully to the clintons. You will hear a shallow parody of the class president. Not only do they say nothing; they say nothing with superfluous ineloquence. Their speeches are sophomoric, shopworn, shallow, specious. Platitudinous pandering piled atop p.c. cliché

In seven years, they have, collectively, uttered not one memorable word save, "It was a vast right-wing conspiracy," "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,"and, "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

Even the clintons' attempts at alliteration fall flat. Compare Agnew's (Safire's) "nattering nabobs of negativism" with clinton's "preachers of pessimism," an impotent, one-dimensional, plagiaristic echo (its apt self-descriptiveness notwithstanding).

Before they destroy their backs along with their reputations, media gentry genuflecting at the altar of the clinton brain should consider Edith Efron's, Can the President Think?

A wasted brain is a terrible thing.

 

 

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[gonzo]

Thanks, Mia................FRegards

[Mia T]

hillary clinton is a "CONGENITAL LIAR"

("I am not a crook")

[jla]

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[Mia T]

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