House report cites undervalued gifts to Clintons

Washington Times ^ | 2/13/02 | Audrey Hudson

[kattracks]

The Clintons kept thousands of gifts when they left the White House, including lavish presents solicited by then-Sen.-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to a House report released yesterday.

"Public servants, including the president, should not be able to enrich themselves with lavish gifts. The current system is clearly broken and needs to be fixed," said Rep. Doug Ose, California Republican and chairman of the House Government Reform subcommittee on energy policy, natural resources and regulatory affairs.

[SGCOS]

No offense Ms. Hudson, but this has been the clinton m.o. for almost 30 years now.

[ValerieUSA]

The IRS should be interested.

[dread78645]

"Everybody does it."

Please move along, nothing to see here.

[Rain-maker]

Smell like a turd, act like a turd...must be a turd.

Somethings never change...

[Dinsdale]

$26,000 in golf items! I bet those gold irons and drivers don't work worth a darn.

[Brian Allen]

Smell like a turd, act like a turd...must be a turd. Somethings never change...

And, as my Grampa used to say, you simply cannot make strawberry jam oudda that stuff.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

THUMP!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

"Congressman Ose's attempt to [renew] a year-old story has cost far more than the American people want to pay during this time of deficits and urgent national needs. The core right-wing of the Republican Party is refusing to let go of an issue that was fully resolved last year," said Jim Kennedy/Joe Lockhart/Lanny Davis/Terry McAuliffe/Richard Cohen/Alan Dershowitz/Sidney Blumenthal/Paul Begala/Tom Daschle/Richard Gephardt/Jerrold Nadler/Eleanor Clift/Judy Mann/John Podesta/Jose Serrano/Tom Harkin/Barbra Streisand/Julia Roberts/Alec Baldwin/Meryl Streep/Adam Clymer.

[Beamer]

Good one! bump

[anniegetyourgun]

China, furniture, rugs....odd "gifts" to give a departing prez, eh? Especially since she-beast had been elected in Nov. and sworn in in Jan and most of those items came between those dates. Do you suppose she had to furnish two homes and found this the best way to end-run the rules? Nah....

[Howlin]

Of course she did! Remember, they had making calls on their behalf, telling them where she had "registered." It was a scam, run by Kaki Hockersmith!

[Howlin]

Spokesmen for the Clintons called the investigation partisan and unnecessary.

Well, they are dead wrong about this; since the Clintons blamed the entire problem on the White House Ushers' Office, and it's become obvious it was THEIR people who did it and chose not to come forward with the truth -- Bruce Lindsay and others refused to testify before the committee -- it is necessary to clear the names of all those who have worked and continue to work in that office without a HINT of scandal until the Clintons came to town. They tried to do to those people the same thing they did to the Travel Office!

[Teacup]

After she won her Senate race, Mrs. Clinton registered at Borsheim's, an upscale Omaha, Neb., bridal store, and received 11 gifts of china and sterling silver.

What the heck was that all about?

[Howlin]

That's how she did it; she registered at the store and then Kaki called up "friends" and told them they could buy her a present there!

[Howlin]

Hillary's Mysterious Bridal Registry

[Howlin]

It's BACK!!!!

[CubicleGuy]

Mr. Ose said the subcommittee's hearing was not intended as a witch hunt, but to show gifts are not being accurately reported.

It was only coincidental that in this case, a true witch was actually found.

[COUNTrecount]

We know what they did. Do we know if they are still receiving gifts ? That could be VERY important information.

[Carolinamom]

When these begging phone calls were made, the potential gift givers were encouraged (told?) to get them to the clintons BEFORE the date of her swearing in....although I noticed that some came in later. No problem. They took them.

I'm swearing now that we know more than these journalists.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I've heard of similar sentiments from James Carville/Harold Ickes/Ellen Ratner/Greta van Susteren/Julian Epstein/Julianne Malveaux/Al Hunt/Donna Dees-Thomases/Dan Rather/Chris Black/Jiang Zemin/Eschoir/Susan Thomases.

[Howlin]

Not only do we know MORE, we knew a year ago.

[Liz]

Scumbags....the whole lot of 'em....tacky Kaki and hateful Hitlery....