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Boehner calls Dems' energy bill 'joke' U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner Thursday called the Democrats' efforts to free up the strategic oil reserve a joke. At his weekly news conference, Boehner, R-Ohio, said Democrats have been making one excuse after another for why we can't have more American-made energy. Boehner, fresh from trips to Colorado to inspect oil shale reserves and Alaska where he looked at conditions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, said tapping those reserves would not lead to environmental catastrophe. The only people standing in the way of this are (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi, (Senate Majority...

STUART VARNEY, GUEST HOST: A live look at Capitol Hill, House members inside, right now, voting on that $300 billion housing bail-out bill — the president saying, today, he will sign it, even though Democrats tacked billions onto it. My next guest voting against it. Ron Paul is a Republican congressman from Texas. Congressman, good to have you with us. Thanks for being here. REP. RON PAUL (R), TEXAS: Thank you. Thank you. Nice to be with you. VARNEY: OK. Now, you'll vote against it. OK. You don't like this thing. We understand it. But the argument is that, if...

Clinton talks about saving the worldby Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Sunday, July 6, 2008 Bill Clinton has an idea about how to solve the world’s most pressing humanitarian problems: It’s the systems, stupid. Addressing a panoply of world issues from climate change and alternative energy to food security and AIDS yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the former president argued that creatively rethinking and reorganizing current global problem-solving methods would vastly improve civilization. Clinton’s sober hour-long conversation with Jane Wales, his former White House aide who is currently vice president of philanthropy and society at the Aspen...

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton thanks the audience after he received the 'Osgar' media award in Leipzig, Germany Tuesday June 24, 2008. At right is Irish singer Bob Geldof. Chief editor Kai Diekmann of German tabloid 'Bildzeitung' hands over the 'Osgar' media award to former U.S. president Bill Clinton, left, in Leipzig, Germany Tuesday June 24 2008. Clinton was honoured for the Clinton foundation and his International engagement for peace and freedom. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea pose for photographs as they arrive at the town hall in Leipzig, eastern Germany, to attend the Osgar media...

R.I. Sen. Whitehouse sees silver lining in demise of global-warming bill01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, June 15, 2008 BY JOHN E. MULLIGAN Journal Washington Bureau whitehouse WASHINGTON — The Senate’s global-warming bill, many months in the making, is dead for this congress, but one of the senators involved in preparing it says the work wasn’t wasted. The next president, whether Barack Obama or John McCain, is likely to sign into law a bill, based on the one that faltered last week in the Senate, that is meant to curb the pace of climate change, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said in an...

"As the Obama bandwagon has swelled, so have the lists of people Clinton loyalists regard as some variation of “ingrate,” “traitor” or “enemy,” according to the associates and campaign officials, who would speak only on condition of anonymity." -- MARK LEIBOVICH, New York Times Those wondering what Hillary Clinton is going to do with herself, now that she's no longer campaigning for the first time since January 2007, would do well to check out today's New York Times. Those Loyal to the Clintons Take Note of Who Was Not addresses both the Clintons and Enemy List v7.0. Mark Leibovich notes...

Hillary and Bill are busy updating their enemies lists. And Obama is racking his brain trying to figure out where to stash his erstwhile rival. If a President Obama put her on the Supreme Court, of course, we would have the infinite fun of hearing Bill rant about how Scalia, Alito, Thomas and Roberts were dissing Hillary. It’s good news for Obama that Hillary’s out of the race. But it’s also bad news. Now Republicans can turn their full attention to demonizing Michelle Obama. Mrs. Obama is the new, unwilling contestant in Round Two of the sulfurous national game of...

A part of modern political Americana says he's gone Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Salena Zito Former President William Jefferson Clinton told supporters in South Dakota that this many be his last day that he is ever involved in a campaign of this kind.

"I can't believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out," Clinton said at a South Dakota campaign stop Sunday, in remarks first reported by ABC News. Clinton also suggested some were trying to "cover up" Sen. Clinton's chances of winning in key states that Democrats will have to win in the general election. " 'Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my goodness, we have to...

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., smiles with her daughter, Chelsea, as she's introduced at a campaign event in Boca Raton, Fla., Wednesday, May 21, 2008. US Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) talks with supporters during a campaign stop at Lynn's Paradise cafe in Louisville, Kentucky, May 20, 2008. Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton gets a kiss from her campaign manager Terry McAuliffe at an election night rally May 20 in Louisville, Kentucky. Predictions of political doom failed to penetrate a cramped downtown hotel ballroom where a beaming Clinton and die-hard supporters kept alive her...

And now the supplemental spending bill to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan war is going to be vetoed and the Democrats damn well know it. Gives them more talking points in the current election cycle, troops be damned. How did it get to this point? Blame Pelosi: How did Congress get itself into this gridlock? The short answer is that the speaker and majority leader placed expediency and control over regular order and transparency, and pursued a strategy that would bypass House and Senate Committee markup, thus forcing the supplemental bill through both bodies with limited debate. Instead of allowing...

5 YR AMNESTY ATTACHED TO WAR FUNDING BILL BY Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) TRAVESTY Disastrous Ag Jobs Amnesty Attached to Iraq Funding Bill! Millions of Illegal Aliens and Their Families to Get 5-Year Amnesty! The pro-amnesty coalition is once again attempting to force another illegal alien amnesty onto America. Sen. Feinstein sponsored a proposal to grant a 5-year amnesty for up to 3 million illegal aliens and their families into the Iraq War supplemental bill. Knowing that the war funding bill is desperately needed to support our troops in battle overseas, the amnesty plan was attached covertly in attempts that...

Anthony Pellicano found guiltyConvicted of racketeering, conspiracyBy Leslie SimmonsMay 15, 2008, Hollywood ReporterAnthony Pellicano, the former celebrity private eye who set up shop on the Sunset Strip and boasted clients who were some of Hollywood's rich and powerful, was found guilty Thursday of racketeering, wiretapping and running a criminal enterprise. [Below Reprinted From Newsmax - 2003]From the NewsMax.com StaffWednesday, Nov.12, 2003 10:58 a.m. ESTPellicano Tapes Could Spell Trouble for Bill and Hillary Hollywood is buzzing over "investigator to the stars" private eye Anthony Pellicano, who copped a plea earlier this year after the FBI caught him with a drawer full...

The Democrats invented race-baiting, making it a staple of campaigning for nearly a century. (The Republicans gave us a civil war.) Now race politics is back, and this time everyone gets to play. With Hillary dead and gone without even a decent wake, most of the punditry is busy with the fatwa, decreeing beheading with a dull knife for anyone who says irreverent things about Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton, who suddenly couldn't push a crippled child's wheelchair across a busy street without taking severe criticism for how she did it, learned yesterday that she broke the brass rule of American...

Carol Felsenthal's new book about Bill Clinton's post-presidential years, Clinton in Exile, is often catty, occasionally malicious, and overly reliant on unnamed sources. It's also pretty boring; when Felsenthal's not muckraking, she's content to trot out newspaper accounts of Clinton's foundation work and his appearances on the guest-speaker circuit. But don't fret—with Slate's reading guide, you can zip straight to the water-cooler-worthy gossip.

Bush Vows to Veto Housing-Relief Bill in HouseWednesday May 7, 10:35 pm ET By DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON — As the House prepared to vote on a housing-relief bill offered by Democratic leaders, President Bush on Wednesday told the lawmakers, in effect, not to bother. “I will veto the bill that’s moving through the House today if it makes it to my desk,” the president said at the White House, after meeting with Republican House leaders. “I urge members on both sides of the aisle to focus on a good piece of legislation that is being sponsored by Republican members.” The...

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is accompanied by North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley, right, and his son Mike Jr. as they enter a rally at Pitt Community College in Greenville, N.C. Monday, May 5, 2008. US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during the Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner in Indianapolis, Indiana May 4, 2008. While a Secret Service agent holds onto his waist, former President Bill Clinton stretches over a porch rail and shakes hands with well-wishers during a campaign stop on Sunday, May 4, 2008, in Morganton, N.C. The former president was campaigning for his...

Bill Clinton as president being comforted by Reverend Wright In the aftermath of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary — a race in which Senator Hillary Clinton had a 20-point lead only a few months ago — the racism and hypocrisy of the Clinton campaign was laid bare for all a nation to scorn. Desperate and willing to do anything to win, the Clintons resorted to a naked form of racism aimed directly at white working-class voters in the rural portions of the state. Their message: Barack Obama cannot win because he’s black. In the early stages of the campaign, it...

Barack Obama says it's an "abstract measure" to count votes in Michigan and Florida, whose contests were essentially nulled by the Democratic National Committee when the states violated party rules and moved their primaries ahead of others in the election calendar. "There have been a number of different formulations that the Clinton campaign has been trying to arrive at to suggest that somehow they're not behind," Obama told reporters following a town hall meeting in New Albany, Indiana, "If you want to count them for some abstract measure, you're free to do so. But, you know, the way that the...

TALLAHASSEE — Employers and business owners can no longer bar workers and shoppers from bringing guns onto their property and leaving the weapons locked inside their vehicles under a bill signed into law today by Gov. Charlie Crist. The new law allows employees and visitors who have concealed weapons licenses to leave their weapons locked in or to vehicles. But concealed weapons license records are not available for public inspection so businesses would have no way of verifying if employees actually have the licenses. The business community objected to the bill, backed by the National Rifle Association, saying property owners...

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets supporters as she makes a campaign stop in at Hot Metal Diner in West Mifflin, Pa., Thursday, April 10, 2008. Former president Bill Clinton campaigns for his wife, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Thursday, April 10, 2008, at Boonville High School in Boonville, Ind.

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton urged President George W. Bush to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, saying he should press China over Tibet and Darfur Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigns at Missoula County Airport in Missoula, Mont., Sunday, April 6, 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at the Montana Democratic Party Mansfield-Metcalf Dinner at the Butte Civic Center in Butte, Mont., Saturday, April 5, 2008. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, second left, poses for pictures with employees of the Puerto Rican Capitol building after the unveiling ceremony...

I note from Bloomberg News that last year the former president received 2.8 million from a partnership with Ron Burkle. There are actually three Cayman Island accounts that Burkle pays Clinton from. To date, former President Clinton has received 15.5 million from Burkle's efforts. The link for this information can be found: HERE. Wikipedia describes the Burkle and Clinton Cayman Island relationship as follows: "..Recent calls for the release of Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton's tax returns have brought to light the fact that President Clinton is expecting a $20,000,000 payout from Burkle's supermarket...

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is greeted by patrons as she arrives for a discussion on the economy during a campaign stop at the Southside Inn Restaurant in New Albany, Ind., Saturday, March 29, 2008. Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., tries to comfort a crying Jackson Blanchard, 11, of Lafayette, Ind., duriing a campaign stop at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, Saturday, March 29, 2008. Jackson said he told Sen. Clinton about friend's parents who had lost their jobs in the Lafayette area

Tapping the hot-button issue of immigration in the region, the Los Angeles City Council and a group of community leaders on Wednesday denounced a federal measure that would require employers to verify their workers are in the country legally. Calling it mean-spirited and intentionally divisive, the council voted 11-1 to oppose the measure proposed by Rep. Heath Shuler, R-N.C., which would beef up border patrols and use a computerized system to verify the legal status of job candidates. … …The council's vote came even as California Republican lawmakers reopened the statewide debate over immigration this week by unveiling a wide-ranging...

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill has provoked furious dissent from MPs and Church leaders. Hybrid embryos The Bill permits the creation of hybrid or "chimera" embryos, where human DNA is inserted into an animal cell for research. Implanting them into a woman or animal will be forbidden and embryos must be discarded after use. Pro-life campaigners and Catholic leaders are bitterly opposed. Abortion The Bill has provisions to allow amendments to the Abortion Act 1967. MPs are expected to push for a reduction of the 24-week limit to 20. Embryo screening Embryos created in fertility treatment can be screened...

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is calling on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) to sign on as a co-sponsor to his GI bill, which would improve educational benefits to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “McCain needs to get on the bill,” Webb told reporters after a Christian Science Monitor breakfast meeting on Wednesday. He said legislation mirroring the post-World War II GI bill should not be considered a “political issue.” Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Il.), the Democratic presidential candidates, both have signed on to the bill. In a major coup for...

Another sign of the anger in Obamaland at the Clinton campaign: an email from a member of Obama's LGBT leadership council, Maxim Thorne, to a couple of listservs: "We cannot tolerate her lies and stolen election," Thorne wrote of Clinton, revisiting familiar themes: At 3am, Hillary said she and Bill were in bed and she knows of all the calls a President gets at different times of the day and night. Really? So much involvement - so much togetherness. Where was she when Monica was having sex with Bill? 35 years of experience? When he was intimidating Katherine Wiley and...

Last month, Bill Clinton announced for the umpteenth time that he was ‘staying out of the spotlight’ and was not going to be an attention-soaking news whore (as per usual) out of respect for his wife’s presidential campaign. This week, for the umpteenth time, Slick Willie Clinton has gone against his own promise and become an attention-soaking news whore.....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Clinton Presidential Library withheld more than a thousand pages about clemency the former president granted during his last days in office — including a pardon to fugitive financier Marc Rich — from a batch of documents recently released to the public. The library released 2,830 pages of documents this week on pardons President Bill Clinton considered for Rich and others during his last months in office. But the library withheld another 1,114 pages that archivists said would disclose confidential discussion of advice the former president received from advisers or would violate someone's personal privacy. The...

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., signs autographs for supporters before speaking at the 26th Annual Jefferson-Jackson-Hamer Day Dinner at the Canton Multipurpose & Equine Center in Canton, Miss., Thursday, March 6, 2008. U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton speaks during a meeting with retired military leaders and senior officials to discuss current foreign policy and national security challenges in Washington March 6, 2008.

Hillary The Movie: (by Dick Morris, former campaign manager responsible for Clinton's Governor and Presidential comeback runs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqQ6PYcKseM

The Minnesota Gun Registration Bill - HF3324 (house authors Paymar; Murphy, E.; Mullery; Erhardt; Johnson; Peterson, N.; Walker; Slocum) and SF2989 (Senate authors Prettner Solon; Anderson; Dibble) is just their latest effort to infringe upon your rights in St. Paul. Go to https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H3324.0.html&session=ls85 to read the entire ugly bill. This is a classic example how to treat lawful citizens as criminals (or make lawful citizens into criminals), while totally giving the criminals a free pass. Although it begins with registration of lawful transfers of handguns and assault rifles, this is a bill to enact what will become a Minnesota gun...

Maybe this ad was a little too long. This was offered to her for the theme of 3AM in the White House, but she chose the other one. Hillary, I'll keep trying to help. HILLARY AD: 3AM in the White House...who is there to answer the phone?

WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton's been spending a lot of time in small-town Ohio. He's heading to Rhode Island on Thursday. From there, he may head back to some of the lesser-known dots on Ohio's map, probably Marion or Mansfield. Is this any way for a campaign to use a former president of the United States? Sure, because it's a way to keep him out of the media spotlight and still be useful to his wife's White House bid. "The Clinton campaign is sending Bill to safe places, to small cities where a visit by a former president is a really...

Another one of the many great myths upon which Hillary's campaign strategy was based has now been exploded: the fallacy of Bill Clinton as a great asset to her campaign. How silly do the proclamations of those pundits and political "experts" who repeatedly told us the rock star was indispensable to the success of her campaign appear now! Reeling from the disastrous effects of a snarling, pugnacious, petulant and caustic Bill Clinton set loose on the campaign trail, the powers that be in Hillary's campaign have finally banished him to the hinterland. The unimaginable has happened:the storied Bill Clinton has...

Bill not only slips by saying, "if you elect ME," he doesn't even notice he did it. Classic.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — ........................... In New Orleans earlier, Clinton offered her regrets for any hard feelings stemming from husband Bill Clinton's comments comparing Obama to the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Yet, when asked about that, all the senator would say is: “I’ll have more to say about that some day, but not right now.” ...................... Yesterday, Clinton had lashed out at Obama about a pair of mailings attacking her on the North American Free Trade Agreement and on her plans to mandate that everyone get health insurance as part of her plan for universal health care. Obama’s campaign questioned whether he...

A brief status conference was held this morning in chambers with Superior Court judge Aurelio Munoz to discuss Paul v Clinton. Although a trial date was not set as expected, the door has been opened for discovery. Peter does not expect that a trial date will be set for this year, but the key was to begin discovery and start the depositions. It is time to get these people under oath. The discovery was put on hold while Peter pursued his appeals to bring back Hillary to join her defendant husband. David Kendall made it absolutely clear that he will...

At a later event today in Steubenville, OH, Bill Clinton snapped hard at an anti-abortion protestor who had interrupted him. “I gave you the answer. We disagree with you," Clinton said. "You wanna criminalize women and their doctors and we disagree... I reduced abortion… Tell the truth, tell the truth… If you were really pro-life, if you were really pro-life, you would want to put every doctor and every mother as an accessory to murder in prison. And you won’t say you wanna do that because you know that because you know that you wouldn't have a lick of political...

Because Bill Clinton has been very busy helping his dear wife in her campaign to put a neo-Stalinist in the White House and give him another opportunity to abuse women there, he might not have had much time to shop for Valentines Day. Of course, he probably gave out about a hundred copies of LEAVES OF GRASS. Just in case he didn't have time to shop for Hillary, I thought I would give him some assistance. I heard the commercial for naming a star after someone, but that was too expensive and is actually a ripoff. As an aside, I...

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The meteoric rise of US Presidential candidate Barack Obama may be headed for a crash landing, if charges of a homosexual tryst and crack-cocaine drug binge are proven to be true. The shocking allegations, made by a Mr. Larry Sinclair, first appeared on a self-made YouTube video several weeks ago, shortly before the hotly-contested South Carolina primary. In the video, Mr. Sinclair alleges that back in 1999, when Mr. Obama was still a state representative, he smoked crack cocaine while receiving oral sex from Mr. Sinclair. In an interview with talk radio show The Right Perspective, Mr. Sinclair says he...

**EXCERPT** CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A bill that sought to make it a felony to harbor or transport illegal immigrants in Wyoming died Tuesday when it failed to receive the required two-thirds vote for introduction in the House of Representatives.

Generally speaking, even the bars on K Street lower their prices for happy hour as a lure for the work-weary to kick back a few and ease the stress of a long day. So charging $1,000 for drinks might seem a bit steep, even for power drinkers enjoying bottles off the top shelf. A fundraising e-mail from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign, however, is offering just that. For $1,000, attendees can enjoy “Cocktails with President Bill Clinton at Whitehaven.” The e-mail, obtained by The Hill, said the Clintons’ Georgetown home on Whitehaven Street has “a handful of slots...

chicagotribune.com The 'Bill' question hovers over the Clinton campaign John Kass February 3, 2008 What about Bill? I asked this more than a year ago now, and have waited patiently for a straight answer. I'm still waiting. And with only hours until Super Tuesday, it's getting late. If Sen. Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination and is later elected president, her prospective First Laddie will dance into the White House. Only, Bill Clinton won't be elected this time. He'll be the spouse and therefore untouchable. And that's not only her problem; it's our problem, even if you're not a Democrat....

Jefferson nickname will be left out of trialProsecution won't call him 'Dollar Bill' Friday, February 01, 2008 By Bruce Alpert WASHINGTON -- The lead prosecutor in the government's corruption case against Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, says the government doesn't intend to mention the congressman's "Dollar Bill" nickname, used by his political enemies, unless the defense claims he is the "victim of entrapment or outrageous government conduct." The stipulation is in a letter from prosecutor Mark Lytle to Jefferson's lead attorney, Robert Trout, released Thursday by the Virginia federal court where Jefferson will face 16 bribery-related charges in a trial...

Landow Denies Authorizing Probe Investigator Says Landow Employed Him in Willey Matter (Washington Post, Jan. 30) By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 31, 1999; Page A22 Democratic fund-raiser Nathan Landow said yesterday that his longtime personal lawyer hired a private investigator to obtain former White House volunteer Kathleen E. Willey's telephone records..... Landow confirmed that investigator Jared Stern was hired by attorney Saul Schwartzbach..... Stern said yesterday that independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's office has twice summoned him before an Alexandria grand jury investigating whether there were efforts to intimidate Willey or chill her testimony in Paula...

ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Hillary Clinton, in an interview with ABC News' Cynthia McFadden for ABC News' Nightline, was asked about President Clinton’s controversial comments about race and Senator Obama in the past weeks. Clinton apologized for her husband. “I think whatever he said which was certainly never intended to cause any kind of offense to anyone,” Clinton said, “if it did give offenses then I take responsibility and I’m sorry about that.” "Can you control him?" asked McFadden. “Oh of course,” Clinton replied.