Posted on 12/04/2008 4:46:15 PM PST by Sioux-san
Although his colleagues on the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be content to throw Hillary Clinton softballs during her confirmation hearing, I suspect Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina has moxie enough to throw the would-be secretary of state a nasty curve as follows:
DeMint: Senator Clinton, just who Is Zdenka Gast?
Clinton: Zdenka Gast? Help me out here.
DeMint: Let me refresh your memory. Gast played a key role in Commerce Secretary Ron Brown’s fatal trip to Croatia in April 1996. Ostensibly at least, Brown went to Croatia to broker a deal between the Croatian government and a certain American corporation. Gast served as liaison between the two.
Clinton: Why is this an issue?
DeMint: For starters, it was a sweetheart deal that the White House coerced Croatia to sign. For another, the White House’s Croatian client was president Franjo Tudjman, a notorious anti-Semite. And for a third, the company in question was Enron. Otherwise, no problem.
Clinton: Enron? Please! What’s your source? Some right-wing blog?
DeMint: No, your ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith. He told Air Force investigators that Gast had been scheduled to fly with Brown on the USAF plane that crashed but flew in instead on a Swiss Air Charter with the Enron guys.
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Nope, the gutless repubs don’t give a hoot about much anymore. They don’t represent me anymore, too many RINOs. Which among them has even dared bring up the issue of Zero’s place of birth? They are weak, and the dems are on top because of the GOP weakness. The dems play for keeps, with no morals. We play nice, get our butts kicked every election, and on every issue. Until the GOP puts up lots of Sarah Palins we are doomed to obscurity.
Whoops.... this will not be published in Arkansas or New York...
Gast lives a couple miles from me, maybe Hillary should visit and I could take her to their house.
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