Looks like Hillary and David Rosen will be taking a walk through the park...
Posted on 01/11/2005 10:44:01 AM PST by An Old Marine
The indictment of Hillary Clinton's 2000 campaign-finance director, David Rosen, may pose a threat to the senator's presidential bid. For now, the federal indictment is focused only on Rosen, but it is not hard to see the process creeping up the campaign food chain to the senator herself.
At issue are the expenses the campaign incurred in an August 2000 fund-raiser for Hollywood glitterati. Rosen was indicted for claiming that the event cost $400,000 when, federal prosecutors allege, he knew the actual cost to be $1.1 million. Under federal campaign-finance rules, the Clinton campaign was obliged to pay for 40 percent of the cost of the fund-raiser. So, if the gala cost $400,000, the campaign had to pay only $160,000, but if the price tag was actually $1.1 million, the campaign would have been on the hook for $440,000.
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We're still going to need a good candidate.
"Another" Hlllary scandal???? Surely you jest my friend! Hillary is as clean as clean can be, bwahahahahahahahaha, lmao, another scandal, I'm sure it is a "vast right wing conspiraacy"!
Name me one Hillary scandal that the news media, or any Democrat, has had a serious concern about. I think this woman could get away with murder (only Vince Foster knows for sure).
If Rove thought he had a good playbook last year, I can only imagine what's in store for her crapliness.
Crossing my fingers, but not holding my breath.
I hope you are right but if the MSM was in the tank for Kerry can you image the way that they'll go nuts for Hillary.
It is time for Hillary to go to jail, stop passing Go and collecting $200,000.00.
Hillary would be the Teflon candidate!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://www.therant.us/staff/campbell/teflon_free_clintons_a_lot_sticks_but_little_comes_of_it.htm
Teflon-Free Clintons:
A Lot Sticks but Little Comes of It
Remember Pat Schroeder? She was a congresswoman from Colorado during President Ronald Reagan’s administration.
What she is best-remembered for is her frustration at the inability of Democrats to make charges of misconduct against Mr. Reagan stick.
“He’s the Teflon President!” she lamented.
Well, Bill and Hillary Clinton definitely are not Teflon-coated. They are just the opposite: Lots of stuff sticks. What distresses is that so little comes of it.
It seems that no matter what the Clintons are caught doing, there is a gaggle of honking apologists instantly obfuscating and excuse-making, and an obsequious media eager to do the same. Often, the likes of ABC and CNN ignore a story or give it cursory coverage. In-depth information typically comes from alternative news sources – talk radio, the Internet, Fox News.
So, while Clinton was impeached (not almost impeached, as duplicitous revisionists say), and it was obvious Hillary engaged in insider trading that turned her small investment into an enormous return, and her husband lied to a grand jury and harassed women, and the two of them routinely used racial slurs against Jews and blacks, the majority of those most influential in news and opinion gave it all a pass for the most part unless forced by circumstances or Matt Drudge to do otherwise.
It seems that when even egregious misconduct is uncovered, the Clintons simply walk, giving their detractors the single-finger salute.
Of course, there is a great hypocrisy in American politics. Sen. Trent Lott gives a bit of praise to retiring colleague and one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond and is whipped pillar to post. Sen. Chris Dodd extravagantly praises former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon Robert Byrd in the Senate, and there is nary a peep of outrage from Dan Rather or the Times. The difference? One is conservative, the other liberal.
You figure out who is what.
So, when a friend e-mailed information about a report of an investigation into a Hillary fund-raiser in August of 2000 that threatens to get uncomfortably close to the former first lady, her prediction of a possible “perp walk” for Hillary seemed unlikely.
According to the Los Angeles Times, “The Federal Election Commission is investigating a Hollywood gala that raised more than $1 million for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign….
”The FEC investigation…comes atop a U.S. Justice Department inquiry that has focused in recent months on the event and former Clinton finance executive David Rosen.”
Inquiries are being made about possible false statements and the collection and distribution of funds for Hillary’s campaign.
There is speculation the investigation is why Hillary emphatically denies interest in running for vice president with likely Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry, although in truth many say she merely is unwilling to accept a secondary position.
But all of that is moot. While Democrats hurled mud at President Reagan and little stuck, it seems the Clintons can walk around splattered, with few negative consequences.
No matter how this investigation concludes, it is unlikely that Hillary will suffer. If wrongdoing is discovered, someone else will be blamed and pay whatever penalty is exacted. The Los Angeles Times will make excuses. Dan Rather will ignore it. Katie Couric will wonder if it is just another manifestation of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
The Clintons have skated through life wreaking havoc in the lives of others for decades, and what has come of it?
Feminists hypocritically supported Clinton when stories of rape and sexual harassment surfaced.
When he lied to a grand jury about his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, Clinton paid no price of consequence.
Where were the charges of treason for selling secret military technology to China?
Where was the hard-hitting coverage of Hillary’s sacking of the White House travel staff in favor of her friends? The relentless follow-up?
No, the Clintons are not Teflon-coated. Mud sticks, but not much else happens.
They just may be the most powerful husband and wife team in the history of American politics, and with power comes the right to say -- figuratively speaking, and using a vulgar but popular colloquialism -- “Bite me.”
But as they grow older, the closet becomes more crowded with skeletons and the list of enemies grows. Can this continue forever?
Those who value justice and, yes, hope to see Hillary get her comeuppance, will follow this investigation to see if things have changed. If not, even if misconduct is found Hillary’s life will continue normally.
And like Pat Schroeder, we will gnash our teeth and pound our pillows.
Pat Schroeder: Twiste face and twisted mind.
Senator Clinton Again Lone Voice Against Chertoff
By TIMOTHY STARKS New York Sun June 11, 2003Also, Hillary holds a grudgeSenator Clinton yesterday stood alone in a vote against judicial nominee Michael Chertoff, who had served as an aide to Senator D’Amato in the Whitewater investigation.
It was the second time she has gone solo in trying and failing to block Mr. Chertoff’s confirmation to a federal post. [snip]
In 2001, Mrs. Clinton was the only senator to vote against Mr. Chertoff for the assistant attorney general position.
It was good enough that they got Al Capone on income tax evasion. For Hillary, I'll take anything, including a piano falling from the sky, that stops her from attaining the Presidency.
If its any comfort this article reminds me of one similar that I read dated from the early 50's. The writer of that article even said he worried that he'd be pursued. It was about Senator Joe McCarthy. Several months later he was hammered into obscurity.
I think that so many of the Clinton supporters are willing to look the other way becasue so many of them are tied to the oatronage that the Clintons handed out so liberally. Its interesting that although there have been only 12 Democratic Presidential years since 1968 the vast majority of the governemnt bureaucracy is liberal-lefty.
That's part of the plan. Two buzzards, one stone.
Unfortunately as a New Yorker I think Hill will take it in a walk. If after 9/11 New Yorkers went for Kerry in the numbers they did they'll slurp up whatever crap the Clintons spit out in '06.
Its pathetic but probably true.
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