[Powerline] Hillary Clinton devotes one chapter of What Happened to her use of a private email setup to conduct the official business of the United States. Jack Shafer suffered through it to spare others the pain. His account is posted at Politico under the headline "Hillary Clinton is sorry, not sorry." As I read the quotes that Shafer serves up, Clinton reiterates all the evasions she served up during the campaign. She continues to "take responsibility" for her lying and misconduct, although she doesn’t put it that way.
The State Department continues slowly to roll out the emails under court order in the lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act. Last week Judicial Watch released an additional 1,617 pages procured through its FOIA lawsuits along with an accompanying cheat sheet declaring "It’s amateur hour at State." Judicial Watch emphasizes the additional evidence of classified information on display.
The New York Post devotes an editorial to the newly released emails. The editorial notes that the emails show Clinton Foundation honcho Doug Band "working with Clinton aide Huma Abedin to get favors for donors, from visas to Cuba to meetings in Singapore."
[Free Beacon] Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) defended her questioning of a Catholic judicial nominee where she said the "dogma" lives within her, saying Sunday the judge's past writings were "questionable."
During a confirmation hearing on Sept. 6 for federal judge nominee and Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett, Feinstein said Barrett's past writings showed the "dogma lives loudly within you."
That comment and Sen. Dick Durbin's (D., Ill.) question of whether Barrett was an "orthodox Catholic" stoked criticism from the right and the left for giving a religious test to President Donald Trump's nominee.
Bringing up the controversy Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," host Dana Bash asked Feinstein for an explanation for her remarks.
Feinstein said she was a product of Catholic education and called it a "great religion," touting she's tried to be helpful to the church anywhere she could.
However, she said, the nominee in this case had no trial or court experience and thus "no record."
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Evidently the part in Article 6 of the Constitution, the part about "but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States" slipped her memory.
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..why just confine her lack of Constitutional knowledge to that. The Left only looks at it as an impediment to dictatorial power (which of course, is what it was designed to prevent). While you're at it, SCOTUS still has left stand Affirmative Action in direct contradiction to the 'equal protection' clause of the 14 Amendment.
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Feinstein said she was a product of Catholic education and called it a "great religion," touting she's tried to be helpful to the church anywhere she could.
As a (False) Prophet of Secular Humanism?
[GotNews] "All week Hillary Clinton’s been pushing her book and saying increasingly ridiculous things about why she lost," Adams said.
"Do you know which one she left out? That Trump is funny as hell," he added. "You have to admit, some number of people voted for him just because he’s funnier. You know that’s true and she left that one out."
Axios tallied up at least 16 headache-inducing excuses from What Happened, including her "damn emails," "Russia," James Comey, sexism, Obama, the DNC, the press‐the list goes on.
"So what’s hilarious about this, is all this week she’s been talking about all the things and the reasons why she lost, and then he just tweets this little‐that just perfectly captures what was wrong with her personality compared to his, right?" Adams said.
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Hillary lost because she's Hillary; I don't think Trump could have beat a candidate that didn't have her baggage.
I call it the 'Coyote Ugly' moment, based on the old Mel Tillis joke. A lot of people got in voting booth, and were like a coyote in a trap. They'd rather chew off their hand than vote for Hillary.
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Stephanopoulos is a poltroon.
[Breitbart] Sunday on ABC’s "This Week," host George Stephanopoulos called President Donald Trump’s retweet an animated gif that shows him knocking down Hillary Clinton with a golf ball "alarming."
Stephanopoulos said, "We had a tweet storm form the president this morning including a retweet ‐ I want to put it on the screen right now ‐ which showed President Trump swinging a golf ball, whacking it right into the back of Hillary Clinton. She goes down right there. Kind of surprising ‐ maybe it’s not surprising ‐ kind of alarming tweet right there. Does it make you question how real this outreach to Democrats was this week?" Strangely, Mr. Stephanopoulos seemed not very concerned about Ms. Clintons use of the phrase "Clear and Present Danger" when referring to Mr. Trump the day before this latest tweet.
Maybe mods will consider the creation of a "Presidential Schlongs" category for "File Under?"
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It should be George. People are awfully tired of your lot - your dishonesty, your arrogance, and your predilection for violence. And Trump's attempts to lessen the tension via jokes will not work forever. Your lot really should read up on French Revolution.
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Pretty good GIF. Not quite as funny as the CNN beatdown, but that one's hard to match. As to George, the average Bugs Bunny cartoon would probably give him a stroke.
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PBM, only the original cartoons where Elmer Fudd actually shoots. I have them on DVD, and the grandkids watched some of them. Aside from laughing, my grandaughter said "the plot makes sense this way."
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Yes-Alarmingly Funny.
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This only a gif. The pelting of Trump supporters with eggs and worse by her thuggish supporters was very real.
During an appearance on "Fox and Friends" on Saturday, Frank revealed that his letter to Trump wasn’t the first time he wrote to a sitting U.S. president about cutting the White House grass.
Frank said: 'Well, my last one, which went to President Obama, I got a letter back. But I knew it wasn’t handwritten, so I knew that this one was actually better...'
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Frank Giaccio is as white as a bowl of sugar cubes... Wonder if Obama's Press Secretary decided, instead of the Big O, that his boss wouldn't have time for a lil' white kid photo op.
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[Powerline] Hillary Clinton devotes one chapter of What Happened to her use of a private email setup to conduct the official business of the United States. Jack Shafer suffered through it to spare others the pain. His account is posted at Politico under the headline "Hillary Clinton is sorry, not sorry." As I read the quotes that Shafer serves up, Clinton reiterates all the evasions she served up during the campaign. She continues to "take responsibility" for her lying and misconduct, although she doesn’t put it that way.
