Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Thursday, June 18, 2015
75 REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVES ON RINO LIST OF SHAME
DUMP THE RINOs
Speaker of the House John Boehner caved to the Democrats, pulling all language pertaining to Obama’s unilateral amnesty for illegal immigrants from the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.
This so-called “clean” bill, without any attachments or ride-alongs or special restrictions, was passed and will fully fund the DHS until September, including the newly created amnesty programs.
Boehner’s excuse for stripping the restrictions on amnesty language from the bill is that the matter is in the hands of the court now and that Congress just needs to move on to other business.
BizPac Review put together a list of the 74 other Republicans who joined Boehner to vote to fund Obama’s illegal amnesty, so we can remember exactly who in the GOP betrayed us when everyone is complaining about the consequences of amnesty over the next year or two.
1. Dan Benishek – Michigan
2. Mike Bishop – Michigan
3. John Boehner – Ohio
4. Mike Bost – Illinois
5. Susan Brooks – Indiana
6. Vern Buchanan – Florida
7. Ken Calvert – California
8. John Carter – Texas
9. Mike Coffman – Colorado
10. Tom Cole – Oklahoma
11. Chris Collins – New York
12. Barbara Comstock – Virginia
13. Ryan Costello – Pennsylvania
14. Carlos Curbelo – Florida
15. Rodney Davis – Illinois
16. Jeff Denham – California
17. Charles Dent – Pennsylvania
18. Mario Diaz-Balart – Florida
19. Bob Dold – Illinois
20. Renee Ellmers – North Carolina
21. Tom Emmer – Minnesota
22. Michael Fitzpatrick – Pennsylvania
23. Rodney Frelinghuysen – New Jersey
24. Chris Gibson – New York
25. Kay Granger – Texas
26. Frank Guinta – New Hampshire
27. Richard Hanna – New York
28. Cresent Hardy – Nevada
29. Joe Heck – Nevada
30. Will Hurd – Texas
31. David Jolly – Florida
32. John Katko – New York
33. Peter King – New York
34. Adam Kinzinger – Illinois
35. John Kline – Minnesota
36. Steve Knight – California
37. Leonard Lance – New Jersey
38. Frank LoBiondo – New Jersey
39. Tom MacArthur – New Jersey
40. Kevin McCarthy – California
41. Michael McCaul – Texas
42. Patrick McHenry – North Carolina
43. Cathy McMorris Rogers – Washington
44. Martha McSally – Arizona
45. Pat Meehan – Pennsylvania
46. Candice Miller – Michigan
47. John Moolenaar – Michigan
48. Tim Murphy – Pennsylvania
49. Kristi Noem – South Dakota
50. Devin Nunes – California
51. Erick Paulsen – Minnesota
52. Robert Pittenger – North Carolina
53. Joseph Pitts – Pennsylvania
54. Bruce Poliquin – Maine
55. David Reichert – Washington
56. Harold Rogers – Kentucky
57. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen – Florida
58. Ed Royce – California
59. Paul Ryan – Wisconsin
60. Steve Scalise – Louisiana
61. Aaron Schock – Illinois
62. John Shimkus – Illinois
63. Mike Simpson – Idaho
64. Chris Smith – New Jersey
65. Elise Stefanik – New York
66. Steve Stivers – Ohio
67. Glenn Thompson – Pennsylvania
68. Pat Tiberi – Ohio
69. Dave Trott – Michigan
70. Michael Turner – Ohio
71. Fred Upton – Michigan
72. David Valadao – California
73. Greg Walden – Oregon
74. Mimi Walters – California
75. Todd Young – Indiana
Is your representative on this list of shame? If so, you may want to let them know, via email, letter, phone call or friendly visit to their office, that you in no way, shape or form support their decision to fund Obama’s unilateral, unconstitutional, and illegal amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants.
And make sure that you let them know that you will be remembering this vote the next time elections roll around, while you’re at it.
WHY? Well continue reading why…
According to a government report released Monday, 121 of the detained illegal immigrants that his administration released back into our country went on to kill people.
Take for instance Apolinar Altamirano, who, after being released by Obama’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, was subsequently arrested on Jan. 22 for “first-degree murder, armed robbery and related offenses.”
Another 33 illegal immigrant murderers were released because of immigration court orders, while 21 were released because of a 2001 Supreme Court decision that capped the amount of time that illegal immigrants can be detained. The rest were released directly by ICE.
Furthermore, critics of Obama’s pathetic immigration enforcement suspected that “the violence rate for released immigrants is probably much higher and the 121 charged are only those who have been caught.”
“Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime,” Maria Espinoza, an advocate for victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, explained to reporters. “This further supports what we have been fighting for. The safety and welfare of Americans must be the priority of the administration and the Republican-led Congress.”
The problem is that neither President Obama nor congressional Republicans take illegal immigration seriously. The president used executive actions to set up amnesty for illegals, and 75 Republicans voted to fund the program.
This is not to say that all Republicans have sold us out. A few them, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Jeff Flake, have been diligently trying to get Secretary of State John Kerry to “put more pressure on other countries to take back their citizens whom the U.S. wants to deport.”
However, according to The Washington Times, the Obama administration’s endless intransigence has unsurprisingly gotten in the way.
The sad truth of the matter is that Obama and his goons care more about protecting the supposed rights of illegal immigrants than they do about protecting the lives of Amrican citizens.
Please share this post on Facebook to get the word out that President Barack Hussein Obama’s weak stance on illegal immigration has cost the lives of at least 121 innocent American citizens.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Do You Know What The Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission is?
Here is a good blog on the TPP everyone should read. NO, it’s not my blog. It’s by a guy who calls himself “The Cranky Conservative”.
That kinda sounds like me though.
Why Would They?
Why, on
God's good green Earth, would Congress give Barack Obama fast track trade
negotiation rights? Barack Obama not only doesn't negotiate, he has no idea how
to negotiate.
When Mr. Obama took office as President, he made a major decision. He chose the royal presidency where all must come to him as he ruled from the Oval Office. Not just Republicans, but Democrats also must come to him, hat in hand and tugging on their forelocks.
The Obama style of negotiation was that his inferiors should do as he instructs them. And he saw all as his inferiors. To aid in this, he had his loyal obstructionists, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. He owned two of the three branches of government. He was king.
CONTINUE
READING HERE: http://cranky-conservative.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-would-they.htmlWhen Mr. Obama took office as President, he made a major decision. He chose the royal presidency where all must come to him as he ruled from the Oval Office. Not just Republicans, but Democrats also must come to him, hat in hand and tugging on their forelocks.
The Obama style of negotiation was that his inferiors should do as he instructs them. And he saw all as his inferiors. To aid in this, he had his loyal obstructionists, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. He owned two of the three branches of government. He was king.
I hope you took the time to read the rest of that blog. Here's my two cents.
The TPP has not passed yet, but the RINOs in Congress will not give up until it does. And the big question is, like the title of the above blog, “why would they”. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know.
I do however know that the Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have sold out American sovereignty. Their so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission will have sweeping authority over trade, immigration, environmental, labor and commerce regulations.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest and U.S. Rep Duncan Hunter, warn: "By adopting fast-track, Congress would be formally authorizing the President to finalize the creation of this Pacific Union and will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have agreed to give up its treaty powers. ... In effect, one of the most sweeping international agreements seen in years will be given less legislative scrutiny and process than a Post Office reform bill."
The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have sold out legislative transparency. Boehner ssid that so-called Trade Promotion Authority puts Congress in charge and promotes "more openness" on trade talks.
That’s BS and everyone knows it. Under the Boehner/Obama plan, Congress gives up its ability to amend any trade deals under fast track, severely limits the ability to debate and lowers the vote threshold in the Senate from 61 to 51. The 11 international parties negotiating with Obama on TPP refuse to sign their dotted lines until Congress agrees to pre-agree to behemoth global trade pacts -- sight unseen.
One of Obamatrade’s biggest supporters Sen. Orrin Hatch, admitted, "I don't know fully what's in TPP myself." The secretive wheeling and dealing on the massive 29-chapter draft kept secret and classified make the backroom Obamacare negotiations look like a public deliberation. Fast-track Republicans, who rightfully made a stink when Nancy Pelosi declared that "we have to pass Obamacare so that you can find out what is in it," now are sounding like parrots.
Please take note of which Republicans vote for and which ones vote against this, and let your voice be heard at the ballet box. I would like to ask you to call, fax, or email your congressman and Senator and tell them how you feel, but I wouldn’t want you to miss any re-runs of pawn stars.
UPDATE:
Bonehead Boehner must go
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/16/house-leadership-removes-rule-dissenters-from-whip-team/
The entire purpose of fast-track is for Congress to surrender its power to the Executive for six years. Legislative concessions include: control over the content of legislation, the power to fully consider that legislation on the floor, the power to keep debate open until Senate cloture is invoked, and the constitutional requirement that treaties receive a two-thirds vote. Legislation cannot even be amended.
By contrast, without fast-track, Congress retains all of its legislative powers, individual members retain all of their procedural tools, and every single line, jot, and title of trade text is publicly available before any congressional action is taken.
Another obfuscation is the suggestion that TPP doesn’t yet exist. To the contrary, it has been under negotiation for six years and lawmakers can enter a closed-door, walled-off chamber to review it. A vote for fast-track is a vote to authorize the President to ink the secret deal contained in these pages—to affix his name on the Union and to therefore enter the United States into it.
Nucor Steel Chairman Emeritus, Daniel DiMicco, warned: “The so-called negotiating objectives in the fast-track bill are merely for show… The President can and does sign the agreement before Congress views or votes on it.” Fast-track is the action that empowers the President to put America’s name on the deal sitting in that walled-off room—before a page of it has been shared with the public.
In a Ways and Means document on the new Pacific Union being formed by Obama, the Committee hints at some of this union’s powers: “if a proposed change to a trade agreement is contemplated [by the TPP Commission] that would require a change in U.S. law, all of TPA’s congressional notification, consultation, and transparency requirements would apply.” In other words, Ways and Means is intimating that this new secret Pacific Union would function like a third house of Congress, with legislative primacy, sending changes to the House and Senate under fast-track procedures (receiving less legislative procedure than, for instance, Post Office reform). Moreover, this legislative fast-track, Ways and Means implies, is limited to that which requires a “change in U.S. law”— meaning if this President (or the next) argues it is simply an executive action, not a legal action, the Executive could have a free hand to implement the Commission’s decrees without Congress. This is not merely a loophole; this is purposeful delegation of congressional authority to the Executive and to an international body. The fast-tracked implementing legislation would have the ability to make these delegations binding as a matter of law.
Amendments to specify that Congress retains exclusive legislative authority, and to actively prohibit foreign worker increases, were blocked by fast-track backers.
Fast-track supporters have tried to temper concerns about the formation of this transnational union, and the subsequent Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) that would also be pre-approved through fast-track, by adding additional “negotiating objectives” via a separate customs bill. The negotiating objectives are not binding, are not meaningfully enforceable, and no individual lawmaker can strike any provision which violates them.
Fast-track keeps what congressional authority is left in the hands of the revenues and Rules committees. Under the Ways and Means “solution,” TPP, TTIP, and TiSA could establish broad goals for labor mobility (allowing Ways and Means to say the negotiating objectives about “requiring” or “obligating” certain changes has not been violated) and the President would then implement those changes through executive action, or change our laws through fast-track.
Negotiating objectives are, by design, not explicit or realistically enforceable. They include such bromides as saying it must be the goal of the White House “to ensure that trade agreements reflect and facilitate the increasingly interrelated, multi-sectoral nature of trade and investment activity,” and “to recognize the growing significance of the Internet as a trading platform in international commerce.”
It stretches the outer bounds of logic to contend that a President who happily disregards the Constitution will be bound to obey a series of broad “negotiating objectives”—especially when those objectives come with a promised surrender of congressional power.
Finally, it must be observed that this is not a “free trade” deal. It is, as Daniel DiMicco explained, “unilateral trade disarmament” and “the enablement of foreign mercantilism,” whereby we open our markets to new foreign imports and they keep their non-tariff barriers that close their markets to ours.
President Obama refuses to answer questions about the impact on unemployment, wage stagnation, and trade deficits. He refuses because the answer is all three will get worse. For instance, a study published in the Wall Street Journal showed that—due to barriers to U.S. auto exports—the deal would increase foreign transportation imports over our exports by nearly four-fold.
Americans have seen their sovereignty, economic position, and political power erode. They have seen that power transferred to an elite set who dream of writing rules in foreign capitals, unburdened by the concerns of the ordinary citizen.
To read the trade agreement is to know that, if Congress adopts the fast-track, it will have preapproved a vast delegation of sovereign authority to an international union, with growing powers over the lives of ordinary Americans.
Like the Gang of Eight, like Obamacare, and so much else—the goal is to get it approved before the American people know what’s in it.
ANOTHER UPDATE:
Promoters of fast-track executive authority have relied on semantic
obfuscation in an effort to deny the obvious: the President’s top
priority is obtaining fast-track authority because he knows it will expand his
powers and allow him to cement his legacy through the formation of a new
political and economic union. If, as promoters amazingly suggest, the
President had more powers without fast track, he would veto it. The authority
granted in “Trade Promotion Authority” is authority transferred from Congress
to the Executive and, ultimately, to international bureaucrats.The entire purpose of fast-track is for Congress to surrender its power to the Executive for six years. Legislative concessions include: control over the content of legislation, the power to fully consider that legislation on the floor, the power to keep debate open until Senate cloture is invoked, and the constitutional requirement that treaties receive a two-thirds vote. Legislation cannot even be amended.
By contrast, without fast-track, Congress retains all of its legislative powers, individual members retain all of their procedural tools, and every single line, jot, and title of trade text is publicly available before any congressional action is taken.
Another obfuscation is the suggestion that TPP doesn’t yet exist. To the contrary, it has been under negotiation for six years and lawmakers can enter a closed-door, walled-off chamber to review it. A vote for fast-track is a vote to authorize the President to ink the secret deal contained in these pages—to affix his name on the Union and to therefore enter the United States into it.
Nucor Steel Chairman Emeritus, Daniel DiMicco, warned: “The so-called negotiating objectives in the fast-track bill are merely for show… The President can and does sign the agreement before Congress views or votes on it.” Fast-track is the action that empowers the President to put America’s name on the deal sitting in that walled-off room—before a page of it has been shared with the public.
In a Ways and Means document on the new Pacific Union being formed by Obama, the Committee hints at some of this union’s powers: “if a proposed change to a trade agreement is contemplated [by the TPP Commission] that would require a change in U.S. law, all of TPA’s congressional notification, consultation, and transparency requirements would apply.” In other words, Ways and Means is intimating that this new secret Pacific Union would function like a third house of Congress, with legislative primacy, sending changes to the House and Senate under fast-track procedures (receiving less legislative procedure than, for instance, Post Office reform). Moreover, this legislative fast-track, Ways and Means implies, is limited to that which requires a “change in U.S. law”— meaning if this President (or the next) argues it is simply an executive action, not a legal action, the Executive could have a free hand to implement the Commission’s decrees without Congress. This is not merely a loophole; this is purposeful delegation of congressional authority to the Executive and to an international body. The fast-tracked implementing legislation would have the ability to make these delegations binding as a matter of law.
Amendments to specify that Congress retains exclusive legislative authority, and to actively prohibit foreign worker increases, were blocked by fast-track backers.
Fast-track supporters have tried to temper concerns about the formation of this transnational union, and the subsequent Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) that would also be pre-approved through fast-track, by adding additional “negotiating objectives” via a separate customs bill. The negotiating objectives are not binding, are not meaningfully enforceable, and no individual lawmaker can strike any provision which violates them.
Fast-track keeps what congressional authority is left in the hands of the revenues and Rules committees. Under the Ways and Means “solution,” TPP, TTIP, and TiSA could establish broad goals for labor mobility (allowing Ways and Means to say the negotiating objectives about “requiring” or “obligating” certain changes has not been violated) and the President would then implement those changes through executive action, or change our laws through fast-track.
Negotiating objectives are, by design, not explicit or realistically enforceable. They include such bromides as saying it must be the goal of the White House “to ensure that trade agreements reflect and facilitate the increasingly interrelated, multi-sectoral nature of trade and investment activity,” and “to recognize the growing significance of the Internet as a trading platform in international commerce.”
It stretches the outer bounds of logic to contend that a President who happily disregards the Constitution will be bound to obey a series of broad “negotiating objectives”—especially when those objectives come with a promised surrender of congressional power.
Finally, it must be observed that this is not a “free trade” deal. It is, as Daniel DiMicco explained, “unilateral trade disarmament” and “the enablement of foreign mercantilism,” whereby we open our markets to new foreign imports and they keep their non-tariff barriers that close their markets to ours.
President Obama refuses to answer questions about the impact on unemployment, wage stagnation, and trade deficits. He refuses because the answer is all three will get worse. For instance, a study published in the Wall Street Journal showed that—due to barriers to U.S. auto exports—the deal would increase foreign transportation imports over our exports by nearly four-fold.
Americans have seen their sovereignty, economic position, and political power erode. They have seen that power transferred to an elite set who dream of writing rules in foreign capitals, unburdened by the concerns of the ordinary citizen.
To read the trade agreement is to know that, if Congress adopts the fast-track, it will have preapproved a vast delegation of sovereign authority to an international union, with growing powers over the lives of ordinary Americans.
Like the Gang of Eight, like Obamacare, and so much else—the goal is to get it approved before the American people know what’s in it.
The High and the Mighty
Colorado Supreme Court Hands Down Ruling Marijuana Smokers Won’t Like
Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled 6-0 on Monday that a medical
marijuana patient, who was fired after failing a drug test, cannot get his job
back. The case has big implications for employers and pot smokers in
states that have legalized medical or recreational marijuana.
In my opinion, the conflict
between state and federal laws need to be resolved. I don’t think the federal law making pot
illegal is constitutional. I think that
should be a state issue. Furthermore, I
think the reason the federal government is not trying to enforce the law in
states where state law allows it is because they know the federal law would be
overturned in federal court.
It would however be
constitutional for federal law to ban the interstate transportation of pot
under the interstate commerce clause.
Just for the record, I am and
always have been opposed to the use of pot for recreational purposes, but there
is indisputable proof that is does have some legitimate medical uses.
Army Deserter Bergdahl was ‘high’ when captured in Afghanistan
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was apparently “high”
with a small group of Afghan soldiers when they were picked up by nomads in
2009, according to a former CIA
operative who was running a network of informants on the ground.
An Open Letter to President Obama - 2015
After reading this Open letter to President Obama, I felt compelled to pass it on for everyone to read.
Dear Mr. President,
This letter is not written in a spirit of hate, disrespect, nor is it motivated in any way by racial bias and is written with respect due the office and the awesome tasks that have been laid on your shoulders.
I write this letter because I am a tax paying American citizen who has experienced the American Dream and wants his children and grandchildren to have the same advantages and opportunities that he has had.
And no, Mr. President, I was not born into a one-percenter family, I come from a blue collar background, never went to college, have made a living doing manual labor and went into my chosen profession at ground level, worked hard and sacrificed to achieve success.
On April 13, 1967 I arrived in Nashville, Tennessee with a wife, a two-year-old baby, a twenty-dollar bill and the clutch out of my car
.
I won't go into the mountains and valleys that I've traveled since then except to say that I have been successful and somebody did help me build the business I own. Almighty God, not the government.
I employ thirty people, good citizens and family people, hard-working people, the kind of gun-clinging, God-fearing folks who make America the greatest nation the world has ever known.
Mr. President, it seems to me that you have little faith in American ingenuity, American capability, American exceptionalism and even American patriotism.
You seem to think that America needs a monolithic, big brother type government to oversee and regulate every aspect of American life, that citizens are not competent to control their own affairs and make their own decisions without some oppressive bureaucracy to call the shots.
Mr. President, the answer is not government, conversely, the problem is government. A government that has doubled the national debt, increased unemployment, lowered take home pay, increased food stamp participation and disability claims and introduced socialized medicine.
You support teacher's unions which take political activism more seriously than education.
You intentionally lied to the American people about your stand on marriage being between a man and woman, and continue to lie when it is politically expedient for you to do so.
You surround yourself with inexperienced ideologues and political yes men and take the advice of individuals who are swimming in waters way too deep for them.
Your petulance is unbecoming, Mr. President, and your criticism of anyone who disagrees with you is downright unmanly. You come off like a spoiled child who has been denied his way.
And while you blame your shortcomings on opposing political parties, you had both houses of Congress and the White House in the first two years of your term. Plus an electoral mandate to do just about anything you wanted to, so the least you can do is cowboy up and take the blame for the messes you've made.
Your apparent disregard for the maintenance and morale of our armed services is extremely unwise and dangerous.
Mr. President, the office you hold is not a place for the faint of heart and when you draw a red line you'd dang well better be willing to back it up, because when you don't every tyrant and despot in this world takes it for a sign of weakness and will take advantage, Putin and China being a prime example.
In making any kind of deal with Iran you spit in the face of Israel and plant the seeds of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
The last report showed that the US economy actually shrunk by .07% while the national debt and other obligations grow by the day.
No matter how many apologists come forth and no matter how much double talk you and the puppets who speak for you come up with, the greatest nation the world has ever known is losing a war with a small army of criminals and thugs that grows bigger every day simply because you don't have the guts to face the problem.
You're running out of diversions Mr. President, sleight of hand political policies eventually stop working and lies finally float to the top of water.
Time is running out for you Mr. President and the horrible thing about it is that time is running out for America too.
What do you think?
Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton Scandals...They have always been happening, and still are.
10 Scandals Involving Hillary Clinton You May Have Forgotten
There are Hundreds of thousands of young people who have reached “voting age” sense the Clintons left office, and have no idea what went on while they were on office. Those are the people I am trying to reach with this post.There is simply no way to reach the hard core Socialist, Marxist, Democrat voter. They would vote for the devil himself if he called himself a Democrat.
Hillary Clinton has been involved in MANY scandals that most of these young people Know nothing about, and some of you older voters may have forgotten about some of them.
Here are ten notable ones for your reading enjoyment. Included are many links you might want to check out.
Chinagate - The Clinton-Gore campaign in 1996 allegedly took bribes from Chinese banks and their government to help their dwindling poll numbers. The Chinese embassy in D.C. helped siphon funds into the DNC. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown (who was killed in a plane crash), and at Hillary’s instruction reportedly sold seats on department trade missions to China. Joint congressional hearings were canceled after Democrats threatened to bring up Republican campaign issues and then Monica Lewinsky actually saved this scandal from media attention.
Travelgate Scandal - Catherine Cornelius, a 25-year-old cousin of Bill's was allegedly promised the position of director of the travel office. Hillary Clinton then (indirectly) fired seven employees from the United States travel office and replaced them with associates from Arkansas. Records were either nowhere to be found or incorrectly filed. And, there's a reported attempt to give a White House airline contract to friend. Hillary had the FBI investigate Billy Dale, the head of the travel office, ruining his career who was found to do nothing wrong, but was then audited by the IRS for three years after.
"Billy Dale and his family went through hell thanks to the Clintons, Attorney General Janet Reno, the FBI and the IRS," Irvine wrote. "Hillary's greatest crime was not perjury, it was trying to send an innocent man to prison to justify having fired him and his staff without cause."
“A memorandum by a former Presidential aide depicts Hillary Rodham Clinton as the central figure in the 1993 travel office dismissals, a politically damaging episode that the aide said had resulted from a climate of fear in which officials did not dare question Mrs. Clinton's wishes," wrote the NYT in 1996.
Whitewater Scandal - Hillary and her husband were partners in a shady real estate development firm called Whitewater Development Corp in Arkansas. Accusations of impropriety against the Clintons and others soon surfaced, regarding improper campaign contributions, political and financial favors, and tax benefits. Clinton’s friends and majority owners, James and Susan McDougal were jailed for fraud, Clinton's successor, Governor Jim Tucker, was jailed for fraud along with municipal judges David Hale and Eugene Fitzhugh who worked with James McDougal. The Clintons walked away unscathed, having apparently done nothing wrong.
See Whitewater Timeline.
Vince Foster Jr. Mystery - Questions cloud the suicide of Vince Foster, former colleague, friend, and White House aid of Hillary’s who had connections to Travelgate, and the Whitewater scandals. Read the link above entitled "The Man Who Knew too Much. . ."
Filegate Scandal - Craig Livingstone, director of the White House's Office of Personnel Security "improperly" accessed FBI files on several hundred individuals.
Mrs. Clinton called it a, "completely honest bureaucratic snafu."
Many of these files were on people from previous Republican administrations. Hillary Clinton hired Livingston and is alleged to have looked at the files and requested this move. She was accused by Republicans of violating privacy rights of individuals she viewed as political adversaries.
Cattle-Futures Miracle - Hillary’s first commodity trade was in cattle futures where she ordered 10 futures contracts which normally cost $12,000 dollars with only $1,000 dollars in her account. This turned into $6,300 dollars by the next morning and after 10 months totaled $100,000, with trading help from James B. Blair.
“Blair, who at the time was outside counsel to Tyson Foods Inc., Arkansas' largest employer, says he was advising Clinton out of friendship, not to seek political gain. . ." reports The WashingtonPost.
Robert L. "Red" Bone ran the Springdale, AK financial services company REFCO allowed the trades and later, after investigation, had to pay the largest fine at the time in the exchanges history and was suspended for three years. Hillary Clinton said she was able to make the successful trading because she read the Wall Street Journal for research.
Lootergate - Bill and especially Hillary started to ship White House furniture to their personal home in Chappaqua, N.Y.. The Clintons claimed they were donated, but at only some were proven to be donated and meant to stay in the White House after contacting the manufacturers. The Clintons returned some of the furniture after pressure was put on them to do so.
“GOP lawmakers and others criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton in particular for accepting many presents just before she joined the Senate and became covered by strict ethics rules that prohibit accepting gifts worth more than $50.”
Drug Dealer Donor Scandal - Convicted drug trafficker Jorge Cabrera apparently made such a big donation to the Clinton’s campaign that he was invited to the White house without Secret Service present.
Ponzi Scheme and Political Favor Scandal - Norman Yung Yuen Hsu was a convicted pyramid investment promoter, and major Democratic donor. He contributed an undisclosed amount to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign.
“He was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison in 2009 by a judge who accused him of funding his fraud by manipulating the political process in a way that 'strikes at the very core of our democracy.”
Benghazi - Just watch this
Here is an article posted in the New York Times in 1996 entitled “Blizzard of Lies” about Hillary Clinton.
The mega Clinton Foundation is also rife with cronyism and political favors.
For a larger list of scandals associated with the Clintons, check out The Clinton Crime Library.
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