Hillary orchestrating Tom DeLay attacks?

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[Saundra Duffy]

I hope DeLay will survive and thrive!!!

[BJClinton]

Already posted here a few posts before.

[kimosabe31]

Gosh...If Bush doesn't get his a$$ in gear on border control, we're liable to end up with "barrel legs" for president in 08.

[Nachum]

I did a search, but the FReeper who posted it changed the title!

It's not my fault!!! (I wasn't there, you can't prove anything)

[OneTimeLurker]

I have it on good information that there is a certain person in the WH political office that feels that Delay is now a major threat to the President's agenda and that that person is in part responsible for some of the media attacks (by leaking info or telling where to look) in the hopes that Delay will step down. That's the reason some Republicans have been emboldened to speak ill of Delay. The WH told them they would be protected.

I trust my source far more than WND. Also, i could see Delay's people as a plant for this story. What better way to rally the troops than to say Hilary is responsible!

Whatever happens I hope it doesn't get too messy.

[tumblindice]

As someone on National Review pointed out, after 8 years of Clintons we now have a Republican Congress, White House and many more statehouses (as well as conservatives across the board) but the Clintons are still waving their crooked fingers; they're shameless. Expect more of the same.

[BJClinton]

Hah! I have screen shots! lol

[Spok]

The left and its friends in the MSM are recovering from the 2004 election and this attack on Delay looks like a probing assault by which they're testing their strategy and effectiveness. If Delay survives, expect something completely different next time in preparation for 2006.

[Kaslin]

I was wondering why the title was different in both threads, even though they are the exact same articles. Then I noticed that Nachum copied the title from the WND's home page while the other thread poster copied the title from the article

[b4its2late]

(I wasn't there, you can't prove anything)

LOL! Deny, deny, deny......

[jec41]

I trust my source far more than WND. Also, i could see Delay's people as a plant for this story. What better way to rally the troops than to say Hilary is responsible!


I like my source better!!!! President Bush who stood on TV and backed Delay this week. You must be McCain's lacky.

[SweetPilotofCanuckistan]

DeLay should be running in '08, at least as VP IMHO. He's the strongest leader in the GOP.

The red states see right through Hitlery.

[beyond the sea]

"I think for me, the sickest and scariest kind of rage is the Hillary Clinton kind of rage. You know, the perpetual permafrost smile she wears that's hiding a well of fury deeper than Barry White's voice during a bout of pneumonia." -- Dennis Miller

"What can you say about Hillary Clinton that hasn't already been muttered under somebody else's breath?" -- Dennis Miller

[OESY]

Friday April 15 2005

HILLARY CLINTON: A ROLE MODEL FOR FULL DISCLOSURE?

In yesterday's commentary chronicling the tempest surrounding Tom DeLay, I clipped a quote from an aide to Speaker Hastert that appeared in the Chicago Tribune. What caught my attention most, however, was something reporter Jill Zuckman wrote in the paragraph that followed. Here's the whole thing:

But a senior aide to Hastert said DeLay may need to make some public explanations about the charges since the House ethics committee has been unable to organize itself with Democrats protesting Republican-instituted rule changes.

"I'm not sure why he doesn't lay it out, regardless of whether the ethics committee ever meets or not," said the Hastert official, who spoke on condition of not being identified.

"Take whatever there is and say, `Here it is,'" the official said. "You have to at one point say, `Here I am, here it is, what's the question.'"

That strategy recalled the approach taken by former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 1990s when she was plagued by questions about unusual profits made from cattle futures. Hastert's adviser, however, rejected the comparison. (emphasis added)

Hillary Clinton randomly cited as a model for full disclosure? This is bizarre. Since Zuckman doesn't attribute it to anyone else, we have to assume she's the one who drew the comparison. More bizarre is that even after Hastert's aide rejected the idea, Zuckman wrote it into the piece anyway.

So what about it: did Hillary lay out all the facts when the cattle future story hit the fan? That's not how I recall it. This NR piece from February 1995 seems to confirm Mrs. Clinton was less than forthcoming:

Has there been any effort to suppress investigation of the transaction? Yes. Mrs. Clinton was adamantly opposed to the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into her and her husband's financial dealings, including her own trading activities, during the late 1970s and 1980s. She attempted to deflect attention from the matter by explaining away her newfound wealth as a gift from her parents, until the Clintons' 1978 and 1979 tax returns were made public and the actual source of her windfall profit was revealed.

Furthermore, despite our repeated and friendly requests to both the First Lady's and the White House's press representatives, none of our questions concerning the elementary details of Mrs. Clinton's trades and the availability of original documentation has been answered.

So what would possess Zuckman to recall Hillary Clinton as a role model of "full-disclosure"? More to the point: how does this little nugget of historical revisionism in any way qualify to be part of a "straight" news story on Tom DeLay?
-- T. Bevan 8:45 am

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[timtoews5292004]

Makes sense to me. Hillary is a controller and a manipulator. she has the resources to do this kind of stuff. Wouldn't put it past her.

[kingattax]

taking back the House in '06 is part of the plan to more easily put shewhomustnotbenamed in the oval office. of course the hildebeast is involved in the attacks on DeLay.

over the next year, plan to have fun watching the RATS try to morph themselves into "people of faith" and having the same religious values as conservative Christians.

[sport]

DeLay has taken heat from both media and Democratic lawmakers for alleged ethics violations and his role in trying to save the life of Terri Schiavo.

He has taken a fair amount of heat from individuals who claim to be Republicans and from members of this forum also.

If the Republicans had one Tom Delay in the Senate, all of President Bush's judicial nominees would have already been confirmed.

One Tom Delay is worth a dozen John McCains, in my opinion.

[Libloather]

"Her focus and her goals go far beyond just the White House."

Uh, oh...