Clintons Plotting their Comeback on the Smoldering Ashes of Hopenchange?

In the delirious-sheeple afterglow of Barack Obama's 'historic' election victory in 2008, a strange thing happened that December: he appointed his critical -openly hostile- and recently defeated primary opponent Hillary Clinton to the head the State Department...

Was it based upon her qualifications? 

Doubtful, considering that Shrillary had no foreign policy experience to speak of. Other presidents lacking diplomatic exposure have traditionally brought someone who themselves had such a background to the vital State Department position- alas, somehow Obama didn't feel the need.

But perhaps the most unsettling concern for many observers was the fact that Clinton's judgement is warped by her blinding ambition to gain power and control- causing her to be manipulative -even Machiavellian- in her dealings with others.
Was this really the best person we could find to represent the United States of America to the world?

So then it was their friendship that brought her onboard Team Obama? Deep interpersonal respect? Ha ha ha- not exactly.

In addition to other puzzling cabinet choices from a guy pledging "change" -i. e. old-guard party aparatchiks like Joe Biden and (corrupt) primary challengers like Bill Richardson- the only explanation for these postings would be fulfilling political deals that got him nominated... as well as the calculated co-opting of Democratic rivals that 'could pose a challenge in 2012' when Obama's numbers are in the toilet (and lo-and-behold here we are, over a year early).

When you're talking about an unprincipled political punk like Obama who had all three other Democratic Party challengers thrown off the ballot in his very first Illinois State Senate race... a man who displays a history of serial political opportunism... the deduction that Hillary was chosen to cap her political ambition/potential seems obvious.

The appointment of Hillary Clinton to State was likely a political bargain struck at the convention- Obama wasn't about to let qualifications or ethical considerations get in the way of such a win-win deal that could hand him the ultimate prize on a platter.

Given the opportunity, it was a Team-Obama priority to control and contain Hillary, Richardson... even Biden. And if he hadn't suffered a most inopportune bimbo-n-bambino eruption,
Silky Pony would have been appointed to a serious position in the Obama Administration, too... he was certainly angling for it.

So should it surprise anyone then if Hillary Clinton were to do a Bobby Kennedy...? 

RFK was of course President Johnson's AG -inherited from JFK- and when LBJ's popularity started to slip, Kennedy turned and ran for President against him in the 1968 primaries. You don't hear it as much as you used to, but anyone saying the Democrats wouldn't run a serious primary challenge against Obama in 2012 doesn't know what they're talking about.

And you can never really count the Clintons out- they appear to have few interests outside of ego-gratification, power, and money (+ oh yeah sex)... and were almost certainly working on a post-Obama "plan B" from the minute the Bolshevik Boy Wonder was sworn in. There's no real loyalty between the two camps -nor love lost- and everybody knows it.

Although they are careful what they say, the calculating, insatiably power-hungry Clintons could simply be waiting for the exact right moment to expoit Dear Leader's accumulated defeats. It would be hard to imagine them not holding a grudge too, longing for revenge after the denial of a presidency they thought they owned.

Hillary ain't going down with the USS Obamanation, I'd almost bet on it- serving Chairman O to the bitter end is not the way the Clintons plan to end their self-absorbed legacy. And as for other Democrats who were caught surprised by the meteoric rise of Obama -then just went with the flow- there's a lot of shallow support out there that could evaporate as quickly as it appeared. 

Barack Obama's deep-seated personality flaws and misguided decision-making are the kinds of things that political opponents tend to take notice -and full advantage- of. You can be sure that the Clintons have been soaking it all up right from the start- and have also schemed accordingly. Could explain all the aggressive early Obama's fundraising, eh- he's already looking over his shoulder.

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BREAKING: Trump NOT Running

 

With Gingrich basically destroying himself already and Huckster out, the field is thinning fast.  The question is does it create room for someone new, or strengthen some element of the current bunch?

CNN has Trump's full statement:

"After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency. This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country. I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election. I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.

I want to personally thank the millions of Americans who have joined the various Trump grassroots movements and written me letters and e-mails encouraging me to run. My gratitude for your faith and trust in me could never be expressed properly in words.

So, I make you this promise: that I will continue to voice my opinions loudly and help to shape our politician's thoughts. My ability to bring important economic and foreign policy issues to the forefront of the national dialogue is perhaps my greatest asset and one of the most valuable services I can provide to this country. I will continue to push our President and the country's policy makers to address the dire challenges arising from our unsustainable debt structure and increasing lack of global competitiveness. Issues, including getting tough on China and other countries that are methodically and systematically taking advantage of the United States, were seldom mentioned before I brought them to the forefront of the country's conversation. They are now being debated vigorously. I will also continue to push for job creation, an initiative that should be this country's top priority and something that I know a lot about. I will not shy away from expressing the opinions that so many of you share yet don't have a medium through which to articulate.

I look forward to supporting the candidate who is the most qualified to help us tackle our country's most important issues and am hopeful that, when this person emerges, he or she will have the courage to take on the challenges of the Office and be the agent of change that this country so desperately needs."

Thank you and God Bless America!
Donald J. Trump

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UPDATE: John Nolte at Big Hollywood says we owe 

Trump a BIG and hearty "thank you" -here-

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ANYbody but Obama... Please!

Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit):

"I would vote for a syphilitic camel over Barack Obama in 2012, so therefore I would even vote for Huckabee or Gingrich.

But I might try to talk the camel into running one more time..."

Ouch- doesn't say much for those two, does it. But at the same time I was just yesterday thinking along those very same lines... anybody but Obama:

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APOCALYPSE NOW? No . . . but Soon Enough

Fiscal train-wreck racing round the bend...

Congressional Republicans gain the most seats in 40 years, and what we get is a trillion-dollar Porkulus II -The Sequel? At a total cost that again exceeds the entire cost of the Iraq war?

Discouragingly, Curt at Flopping Aces sees the package already a done-deal... with a weaker-than-circus-lemonade GOP throwing away recently hard-won political capital to bring us more spending, pork, and class warfare. You're excused if you naively thought all this is precisely what America just massively rejected... so did I.

As the GOP inexplicably caves to a weakened Obama/Reid, congressional Republicans are quick to stress that this sort of deal with the White House -which again exposes all previous pay-as-you-go platitudes from the President as flat-out lies- would never see the light of day after the first of the year.

And all parties are understandably keen to avert an immediate economic disaster by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire- which Art Laffer predicted would put us right-over the cliff somethime in 2011... but both tax cuts and a trainload of pork with zero offsets...? 

Tellingly, the bond market is appalled- T-bills tanked hard yesterday, with the biggest sell-off in two years... worst since the Lehman Bros collapse. This horrendous month has seen borrowing costs soar for America, Europe, and Japan by more than 25%... you do the math on times-a-few-trillion to see just what that means- bond investors seem to have it sussed.

Small wonder then a growing number of serious people now speak of the previously-unthinkable: a comprehensive economic collapse in the United States of America.

Nouriel Roubini -who foresaw the 1990s emerging-economies debt crisis and earned much credibility by accurately predicting the occurrence and scale of the subprime debacle- sees weak US growth and NO will to tackle the deficit crisis until "the next administration". He also expects unemployment stuck at 9.5% for the foreseeable future.

But that's in the short-mid term... the spendthrift fiends running the US today are doing all they can to bring far-darker long-term predictions of a financial apocalypse to reality... via unrestrained hyperinflation leading to a dollar collapse.

Dr. Roubini himself warns of a "US fiscal train-wreck waiting to happen"- and he's not the only one:

Economists peddling dire warnings that the world's number one economy is on the brink of collapse, amid high rates of unemployment and a spiraling public deficit, are flourishing...

"The US has run out of bullets," Roubini told an economic forum in Italy earlier this month. "Any shock at this point can tip you back into recession." 

But other economists, who have so far stayed out of the media limelight, are also proselytizing nightmarish visions of the future. Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff ... unveiled a doomsday scenario -- which many dismiss as pure fantasy -- of an economic clash between superpowers the United States and China, which holds more than 843 billion dollars of US Treasury bonds. 

"A minor trade dispute between the United States and China could make some people think that other people are going to sell US treasury bonds," he wrote in the IMF's Finance and Development review. "That belief, coupled with major concern about inflation, could lead to a sell-off of government bonds that causes the public to withdraw their bank deposits and buy durable goods." 

Kotlikoff warned such a move would spark a run on banks and money market funds as well as insurance companies as policy holders cash in their surrender values. "In a short period of time, the Federal Reserve would have to print trillions of dollars to cover its explicit and implicit guarantees. All that new money could produce strong inflation, perhaps hyperinflation," he said. 

"There are other less apocalyptic, perhaps more plausible, but still quite unpleasant, scenarios that could result from multiple equilibria."

Deranged Obama Administration fiscal policy also has PIMCO founder Bill Gross scratching his head:

Check writing in the trillions is not a bondholder’s friend; it is in fact inflationary, and, if truth be told, somewhat of a Ponzi scheme. Public debt, actually, has always had a Ponzi-like characteristic. 

Granted, the U.S. has, at times, paid down its national debt, but there was always the assumption that as long as creditors could be found to roll over existing loans – and buy new ones – the game could keep going forever. 

Sovereign countries have always implicitly acknowledged that the existing debt would never be paid off because they would “grow” their way out of the apparent predicament, allowing future’s prosperity to continually pay for today’s finance. 

Now, however, with growth in doubt, it seems that the Fed has taken Charles Ponzi one step further. Instead of simply paying for maturing debt with receipts from financial sector creditors – banks, insurance companies, surplus reserve nations and investment managers, to name the most significant – the Fed has joined the party itself. 

Rather than orchestrating the game from on high, it has jumped into the pond with the other swimmers. One and one-half trillion in checks were written in 2009, and trillions more lie ahead. The Fed, in effect, is telling the markets not to worry about our fiscal deficits, it will be the buyer of first and perhaps last resort. There is no need – as with Charles Ponzi – to find an increasing amount of future gullibles, they will just write the check themselves. 

I ask you: Has there ever been a Ponzi scheme so brazen? There has not.

What to expect subsequent to a US economic implosion/hyperinflation crisis? The Department of Defense has been preparing for civil unrest in the wake of a crisis for two years now...

"Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities ... to defend basic domestic order and human security," the report said, in case of "unforeseen economic collapse," "pervasive public health emergencies," and "catastrophic natural and human disasters," among other possible crises.

No paucity of frightening implications in that... but others are being far more specific:

As you are now well aware Fannie and Freddie are going to punish people who have stopped paying their mortgages, who can pay them, and who are paying other bills instead. This leaves lenders with foreclosures and much more inventory than they ever imagined. This additional problem will bring on the double dip that Wall Street and Washington so fear. As a result of this and other failures we are about to experience the worst economic collapse since 1348. 

The stock market is topping out readying itself for its most disastrous fall in history. The fall will be followed by years of depression, all of which has been deliberately created to bring the world economically and financially to its knees in an attempt to bring about world government by Illuminists. 

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There are always these lone voices in the wilderness, which at best – some 15% of the populace – listens too. You had better listen this time because it could well cost you not only your assets, but your life, especially when another war is being prepared for you to engage in. 

Nothing is really as it seems to be and there are no coincidences. You are about to enter a world of chaos from which few will survive unscathed. A world of no banks, no public facilities, no food and rampaging gangs of desperate people. Unemployment of 50% and little law and order. Violence will be rife. 

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We are now entering the next to last phase of our journey. The wanton creation of wealth, inflation and perhaps hyperinflation, which will rob you of your assets. A stealth attack on what you have left by the people who control your government. Such monetary creation is the only way these people can keep the game going. They know it won’t last, but they proceed anyway. 

For awhile they’ll keep the multitudes at bay with extended unemployment and food stamps, but that will fade in time for lack of financial control, as the system begins to break down. You already see all fiat currencies under fire, as is sovereign debt. 

Can it get any worse? Of course it can, and it will. Implosion is the word everyone is going to discover and understand...

When it's all said and done -and we're trying to come up with new, creative recipes for K-rations in our bunkers- at least the TEA Party patriots will be able to look their children in the eye and say they tried to derail this country's wholly-unnecessary self-destruction.

What a crying shame... let's hope and pray we can find a way to avoid it:

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Lessons of 2010: RUBIO -not Romney- Republicans in the Drivers' Seat for 2012

"Usually, a figure like Romney is the big shot
who arrivesin town to boost a little guy like Rubio. 

This time, it's the other way round..."

With Marco Rubio pretty much running-away with it in Florida, all those with presidential ambitions on the Republican side are taking-note of the rapidly evolving political landscape in this country... and making hurried adjustments. 

Two things have become apparent re. 2012: Better give us a small-government, Reaganite-conservative... the TEA Party movement will hold de facto veto power over the nomination. 

And it won't necessarily be the next-guy-in-line this time, either... both these developments likely sound less than ideal to professional presidential candidate Mitt Romney- the father of RomneyCare does have some explaining to do.

Toby Harnden from The Telegraph (UK) was in Florida this weekend as Mitt was actually stumping for Marco Rubio's all-but-sealed Senate bid. But with GOP rising-star Rubio up 12 points over Orange Charlie, why was Romney even there... and who was more likely to benefit from the association?

Despite the shifting political sands of the past two years, one thing has been constant: Mitt Romney running for president. 

Having spent many millions of his personal fortune being defeated in 2008, he scarcely paused for breath and just carried on with his 2012 bid. Campaigning up and down the country during the mid-terms, Romney has been endorsing candidates, holding fundraisers and building up the kind of network of goodwill that traditionally stands White House aspirants in good stead. 

His message is finely honed and has resonance. Matinee Mitt will never look like that regular guy next door but he's stopped tending to his bouffant thatch, shed his tie and loosened up a little. 

Talking to several hundred fired-up Republicans crammed into Benedetto's Italian restaurant in a strip mall in Land O'Lakes, Florida on Friday, Romney accused Obama of trying to smother "the very creed of America" with taxes, excessive regulation and the growth of what Margaret Thatcher called the nanny state. 

But the star of the show was not Romney but Marco Rubio, who seems to be coasting to victory in the Florida Senate race...

America is now making a sharp turn to the right... and the next couple of years look to be quite different than the last:

The departure of his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has forced Obama to make changes in the White House before he planned to. 

Precriminations for the expected Democratic drubbing are underway and Obama's contribution has been to berate his supporters for the "inexcusable" sin of "sitting on their hands complaining". 

Usually, a figure like Romney is the big shot who arrives in town to boost a little guy like Rubio. This time, it's the other way round. Young, bursting with energy and brimful of indignation, Rubio was the main draw in Benedetto's. Romney appeared to be hoping for a bit of the Senate candidate's magic to rub off on him. 

Initially written off as too Right-wing and young to win in Florida, Rubio will be one of the Republican kingmakers in 2012, which is shaping up to be an election like no other.

Background/update on the Rubio-Crist-Meek 
Florida Senate race -here-

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