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  1. My wife and I just finished discussing Hillary’s duplicity before I read this post. What can I say? What power do we have to change the course of history? We both feel like crying in the face of Hillary’s cynicism.

  2. F:

    And yet, IMHO, Hillary wouldn’t be able to do so much without the cooperation and support and rationalization of people like Yglesia. It’s the Yglesias of the world who really scare me.

  3. Hillary is giving whores a bad name.

    Oh, and the Dems probably will take the Senate because there are a lot of Republicans Senators up for re-election from Blue states. Another prediction, Sanders gets to be elected the next President, after all he is the most novel. Little else matters to the electorate. I will not guess whether he will drop dead before he takes office however.

  4. TPP to benefit the drug companies?!

    Her tweet from two weeks ago crashed the biotech and pharma sectors. Billions lost.

    And yesterday in Iowa she blasted the drug companies ten feet from my face!

  5. This is one of the very few times I agree with Hillary. While we have not seen the agreement, my fear is that is less about free trade and more about crony capitalism and corporate welfare.

    A true free trade agreement would be about one sentence long. This is substantially longer and I doubt it is about clarification of the one sentence, The deep secrecy concerns me.

  6. I guess I’m thinking . . .

    While I concur with neo regarding Hillary!’s ummmmm, might we gingerly say “pragmatism”, . . .

    I’m thinking that to expose the logical and policy inconsistencies is to play the wrong game. The exposure is correct, yes, but:

    Hillary!’s constituency is neither interested is nor swayed by consistency or logic. It is interested in emotion and ad hominem attacks — you know, the usual-suspect racism-sexism-otherism-xenophobia-greed collection of mud to sling. It is a cult of tribal unity and personality worship, and, of course, a desire to be part of (yet) another historical “first”.

    Not much of role for consistency and logic in there!

    Now, as to any swing vote . . . I dunno. I’m not terribly impressed with how the swing vote swung to The One the past two times. And we may do well to bear in mind that the illegal and graveyard blocs are also neither interested in nor swayed by consistency or logic.

    But I admit I have no other weapons in my meager arsenal, so I’ll relinquish the floor in favor of other commenters.

  7. Championing the Trans-Pacific Partnership was the closest thing to an achievement she could lay claim to during her time as Secretary of State. Unlike every other bogus claim she makes, “advocating” for women’s rights and getting millions of frequent flier miles, it’s the only one of her efforts that bore actual fruit. Regardless of whether anyone thinks the TPP is a good idea or not, it’s the closest thing to an actual result she managed to achieve during the entire time.

    Now she’s rejecting any claim to it.

    Somehow I’m not seeing any indication that the “Smartest Woman In The World” is all that smart. In fact, she appears to be something of a bonehead.

  8. The TTP is essentially a retread of the Enablement Act that Adolf so cherished.

    Barry has thrown everything + the kitchen sink into it.

    Its “fast track” = Executive Orders and executive discretion.

    So Barry has immigration issues thrown in…

    His ability to damage the nation will be epic — out and out economic warfare — against Americans.

  9. “she knows where the levers of power lie, and she is comfortable pulling them”

    What in her record evinces this?

  10. Hillary was a true lefty with Hillarycare. But the long pull for the whitehouse has left her a hollow shell much like Saruman. Only the goal means anything to her now

  11. Eric Says:
    October 8th, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    “she knows where the levers of power lie, and she is comfortable pulling them”

    What in her record evinces this?

    %%%

    HRC will put Bill Clinton and Jamie Gorelick on the task.

    That’s the duo that reworked CRA Policy into the fiasco it became. Jamie wrote — personally — the changed standards and rode shotgun under Janet Reno.

    I can’t imagine a Rodham Clinton White House without Jamie.

    BTW, the general word was that HRC is a knock off of Stalin when it comes to paperwork and vendetta. She’s got the rage and paranoia, too.

    I honestly figure her to have more industry than Barry — as if that’s much a hurdle.

    At least Biden or Sanders would not be flat out mean spirited.

  12. What in her record evinces this?

    The way she character assassinated the rape victims of the Clintons.

    Mass media manipulation of that level requires more than merely money and political leverage, it requires a kind of personal vindictiveness beyond the norm.

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