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Keith Srakocic/Associated PressRichard Mellon Scaife in 1997. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 — Back when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied what she once called the “vast right-wing conspiracy” than Richard Mellon Scaife. Mr. Scaife, reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, spent more than $2 million investigating and publicizing accusations about the supposed involvement of Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in corrupt land deals, sexual affairs, drug running and murder. But now, as Mrs. Clinton is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. Scaife’s checkbook is staying in his pocket. Christopher Ruddy, who...

This is a picture appearing in relation to the movement of the Intrepid, which finally got underway. the self-satisfied, smug look on the woman's face is just priceless! Caption away!

Call it the front-runner’s paradox. While Hillary Rodham Clinton tops every national poll of likely 2008 Democratic presidential contenders, the New York senator is dogged by questions of “electability” — political code for whether she can win enough swing states to prevail in a general election. It’s a gauge typically applied to Democrats, as few question the crossover appeal of the GOP front-runner, Arizona Sen. John McCain. And for activists eager to recapture the White House after eight years of George W. Bush, electability remains a crucial yardstick by which Clinton, especially, seems to be measured.

Fearless White House correspondent Helen Thomas has covered nine presidents, and says Bush is undoubtedly the worst. It was the talk of the blogosphere: As part of Stephen Colbert's eviscerating roast of President Bush at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in April -- wonkish Washington's equivalent of the Oscars -- he showed a hilarious video that was supposedly an "audition" for the job of White House press secretary. His costar in the satiric short: none other than the octogenarian doyenne of White House correspondents, Helen Thomas. Using actual TV footage of the White House press corps, Colbert (of...

WASHINGTON Aug 3, 2006 (AP)— Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, hours after excoriating him at a public hearing over what she said was a "failed policy" in Iraq. "I just don't understand why we can't get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation around before it's too late," the New York Democrat told the Associated Press. "I think the president should choose to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation." Clinton confronted Rumsfeld directly on Iraq and Afghanistan earlier in the day, and said his answers left her convinced he should...

"Food and Drug Administration Commissioner-nominee Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach is greeted by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006 prior to testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on his nomination."

On Drudge now, captioned, "Hillary frets computer chips -- will be put in kids' brains!"

In the best chapter of all, titled "Lapdogs of the Press," Thomas excoriates what she describes as "the obsequious press during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq." She believes, and has often explained to a public, which has grown increasingly skeptical of reporters' failures to truly "watchdog" the president, that journalists were seriously "subdued" by the political climate immediately after 9/11. "[Reporters] forgot their credo that an eternal spotlight on public officials was the best way to keep them honest," Thomas writes. "In the long run-up to the Iraq War, reporters were bombarded with misleading information and 'spin' from...

Sen. Clinton said yesterday that Democrats emerged from the Senate debate on U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq "more united" than ever behind a conditional-exit strategy in the war that has divided her party. In remarks before the NDN, a new centrist-leaning Democratic advocacy group, Mrs. Clinton avoided the criticism she had earlier leveled at anti-war lawmakers seeking a quick pullout of all U.S. forces within one year. This time she offered only words of praise for the widely differing withdrawal positions offered by liberal Democrats in the Senate. "Although unity is important, it is not the most important value. I...

2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Monday that she's horrified over allegations that U.S. Marines executed innocent Iraqis in the town of Haditha last November after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb - and she's vowing to expose any cover-up by Marine brass. "This is the kind of horrific allegation that has to be investigated, and we're going to start in the Senate doing just that," she told the New York Daily News, after marching in Chappaqua's Memorial Day parade. The comments by Clinton, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, seemed to contradict remarks by committee...

Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 24, 2006 -- Liberals have been swift to denounce a new book of Hillary Clinton quotes, with even the New York Times backtracking on its prior coverage. The author and publisher stand by the book, however, and have issued a challenge to the book's left-wing critics. "I've Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words" (World Ahead Publishing; paperback: $12.95; ISBN 0974670189), compiled by Thomas D. Kuiper, features a cover image of New York's junior senator wearing a Chicago Cubs hat. The book just hit stores earlier this month, but it has already...

theory it will put Chicago to sleep; in reality it will sink the economy. The ballroom was packed with a who’s who of business when Sen. Hillary Clinton addressed the Chicago Economic Club last week. No doubt about it, this was the address of a presidential hopeful. But unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton, the eyelids grew heavy as she droned on and on. Sleep, it seems, was the better option to suffering through this odd and curious presentation. On the one hand Clinton acknowledged a growing economy, a stock market at historic highs, strong productivity and profits, and low unemployment, while...

The clouds part, the sun shines, and the cow moos... U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (C) stands among protesters calling for peace in Sudan as she gathered to honor former Sudanese child slave Simon Deng, who had just walked 300 miles (483 km) from the United Nations in New York to the Capitol Building in Washington April 5, 2006. Deng walked from New York to Washington to highlight 'the genocide and modern-day slavery in Sudan.' Congress later on Wednesday will be voting on the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act. REUTERS/Jason Reed

Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday defended Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for describing the House of Representatives as a "plantation," saying he felt her choice of words referred to a "consolidation of power" in Washington that squeezes out the voters. The senator told CNN's "American Morning" he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that "the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren't in the majority party don't have much input." "There's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which, if...

<p>Puerto Ricans are born American citizens, yet pay no federal income tax Now Hillary Clinton wants to give them refunds on Social Security and Medicare taxes. I must be missing something, or Clinton must be trying to one-up Jon Corzine on vote-buying. You go, Hillary — no shame means more votes. Your party has made an art of it. Kevin Snyder Allentown, Pa.</p>

If Hillary Clinton runs for President in 2008, just 25% of Americans say they would definitely vote for her. That's down five points over the past two weeks. It's also the lowest level of support measured for the former First Lady in 2005. (Review Trends). Forty percent (40%) would definitely vote against Senator Clinton. That's little changed from two weeks ago. Rasmussen Reports has conducted a Hillary Meter poll every other week since April. Only once has the number who say they would definitely vote against Clinton been higher than it is now.

Photos, stories, documents, exhibits, civil lawsuit located at The Hillary Clinton Accountability Project -- HillCAP.org CIVIL SUIT LATEST NEWS DOCUMENTS NEWS ARTICLES GALA CONCERT BREAKING STORY FROM OCT. 3 Amazingly, not even Hillary Clinton could not stop it. The WASHINTON POST MAGAZINE on Sunday, October 9 is running an 8,000-word cover story about the largest campaign finance fraud on record. The fraud occured during the 2000 senate race between then First Lady Hillary Clinton and New York Congressman Rick Lazio. According to the government prosecutor's own numbers in the criminal trial of David Rosen, entrepreneur Peter Paul was induced to...

2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday she was "outraged" that President Bush hasn't spent more money to beef up security on New York City's mass transit system in the wake of Thursday's train bombings in London. "I'm absolutely outraged by the failure of the administration to release the [rail security] funding that Congress approved last year," the top Democrat complained. "We are woefully behind where London and other subway systems are because London does have the video surveillance," she fumed. "I just don't understand what the holdup is." Even before the smoke cleared in London, Clinton was on the...

New York Gov. George Pataki read Sen. Hillary Clinton the riot act on Thursday after she demanded that he condemn comments by White House political advisor Karl Rove. "I think it's a little hypocritical for Sen. Clinton to call on me to repudiate a political figure's comment, when she never asked Sen. Durbin to repudiate his comments," Pataki told reporters, after she complained that he sat idly by as Rove blasted liberals for being soft on terror at a New York Conservative party function Wednesday night. Story Continues Below "She never responded when asked to respond [about Durbin]," Pataki complained....