Category Archives: Cabinet
Crony In Chief
Ted Cruz has an ad showing Donald Trump bulldozing a widow’s home in order to make room for limousine parking at Trump Plaza. Trump didn’t do that. But he tried. He got the state of New Jersey to use its eminent domain power to go after the house. Trump lost in court but he thinks teaming up with government to seize private property for his own benefit is “wonderful”.
Crony Capitalism.
Kevin Williamson in National Review calls Trump “a lifelong crony capitalist who brags about buying political favors”. He goes on to say Trump supporters believe, “that they can dispatch a crony capitalist to undo crony capitalism in the same way that New Age healers believe that a little bit of diluted poison chases away similar toxins.”
Bill’s Speech Making
If this seems like a variation on a theme, it is.
Hillary is running as a feminist. Katherine Timpf calls her a fake feminist. Hillary says women who accuse men of rape should be believed. Timpf points out that Hillary intimidated women who accused Bill of sexual assault.
When a reporter asked her if Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick should be believed, Hillary responded that women should be believed until the evidence shows otherwise. According to Catherine Timpf “absolutely no evidence” has turned up to show otherwise. In fact Bill settled a suit by Paula Jones.
So, it seems like a good time to change the subject.
Bills Speech Making
Bill is good with money. In fact he’s so good The Wall Journal says, “two dozen companies and groups and one foreign government paid former President Bill Clinton a total of more than $8 million to give speeches around the time they also had matters before Mrs. Clinton’s State Department”
As Hillary would say, no evidence emerged showing a link between Bill’s speech making and her job overseeing the State Department.
He just gives a hell of a speech.
Yellen Takes Off Training Wheels
Janet Yellen took the training wheels off the economy on Wednesday. After seven years of near zero percent interest rates, the Fed hiked rates a quarter percent.
Meanwhile, Congress passed a 2,000 page, 1.2 trillion dollar budget. That tacked another 157 billion onto the 18.5 trillion dollar national debt.
Yellen
On Friday the Dow dropped 370 points.
David Stockman says, “sell the bonds, sell the stocks, sell the house”. IBD wonders if the markets know something the Fed doesn’t.
Obama is Making a List
President Obama is making a list and checking it twice. He thinks it’s insane that people on a no-fly list can buy a gun. The problem is there’s no due process involved in earning a spot on the list. And it’s hard to get off if you don’t have a direct line to the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Obama is Making a List
Stephen Hayes, the writer and Fox News contributor, found himself on the list and he hardly ever wears a suicide belt. But he did take a one way flight to Istanbul to board a cruise ship, and that did the trick. Hayes filled out all kinds of paperwork to get himself off the list but to no avail. Finally, Bret Baier asked Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, during an interview, if he thought Steve Hayes was a terrorist. That got him off the list.
The president has worse lists to be on and the way off is even less pleasant.
White House Secret Server
Hillary may have had over 300 classified documents on her secret server in a bathroom closet in Denver. She turned a server over to the FBI that had been wiped clean. Bob Woodward compared her email issues to Richard Nixon’s tapes. His tapes only contained an 18 minute gap.
Update:
Former CIA director John Deutch also stored classified information on his home brew hard drive.
He was pardoned in the final hours of the last Clinton administration. Marc Thiessen has details here.
