Archive for the ‘Hillary Clinton’ Category
by Lesley Lotto
So he went and did it. Caved to the pressure of the masses who said, “you must resign” because he let his third leg do the talking. For shame.
I’ve been privately hoping Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York would stay in office. It seemed that things quieted down quite a bit when the Weenie, err, Weiner went off to “rehab”. Then there was the dumbest press conference I’ve seen in years with who else, Gloria Allred, and her latest victim (I mean “client”) accusing some man of some thing. Ginger Lee, the “featured dancer” read: stripper and former porn star who may or may not have sent naked pictures of herself to Weiner. She said Weiner should step down because he lied and encouraged her to lie and lying is bad I guess. And I care what you say, because?
Seriously, WE. DON’T. CARE.
At least I don’t care. I always thought the Congressman had an itch in his pants, but not the literal kind. He was going to be the next Mayor of New York City after all. At least that’s what Janeane Garafalo said on Bill Maher last week.
For those of you under a rock the last month, Congressman Weiner tweets his stuff to the world, unbeknownst to him… allegedly, a simple typo apparently, an @ instead of a d. Then the women start coming out of the woodwork, literally, saying he did nasty things to them ONLINE. What was illegal about that? So he was indiscreet, being a married man and all. One of his “victims” even saying she had to tell because she feared for her life, she feared for her toddler and, oh yeah, there’s that $10,000 ABC News paid me to share my private Weiner tweets which came in quite handy while living as a single mom and all. Now that’s what I call a stimulus!
Some of the “risqué” photos that have now circulated online show Weiner holding his thing all proud, showing off his rather impressive 6 pack and most recently, posing in the House Gym holding himself again. I’m guessing all the Congress members pose with their stuff in the mirror, but I’m thinking Debbie Wasserman-Schultz doesn’t then tweet the pic to unsuspecting young coeds.
To me, the whole thing boils down to a sad, insecure individual who was clearly not getting anywhere near the attention he desired.
Now his wife, who’s “Hillary Clinton’s Shadow” aka Deputy Chief of Staff comes back from Africa. (She’s also “newly” pregnant by the way). She reportedly encouraged her hubby of a year to stay in office, not resign. But of course that was before all the mega powers in Congress told him to split the scene and make it keen. But he was “defiant”!
Man it would have been awesome to be a fly on the wall in Africa when the wife found out and told Hillary. I’m guessing Hill had some words of encouragement, like tell him to stay in office but make him sleep on the couch. Word is Weiner even apologized to Bill Clinton. A good President, by any measure, with a tiny blemish on his record, remember that? A B.J. in the Oval Office.
What could Weiner have possibly apologized to President Clinton for? “I disgraced you because I couldn’t get ‘er done”? One does wonder…
by Lesley Lotto
So Newt Gingrich has announced he’s running for President in 2012. Whoop dee doodle. Really? Has there ever been a more hypocritical run for higher office? Well, ya, probably. The overly bloated, egotastical Newt made the announcement via Twitter last week to which his 14 followers all bellowed from the Internets, yahoo, wait, what?
Gingrich was of course the Speaker of the House when Bill Clinton was President. He was swept onto the throne on a tidal wave of popularity when the country was confused, kind of like right now, voting for whatever the opposite is to what there was at the time. Sort of like an episode of Seinfeld.
Newt was also widely known as one of those who tried to get Clinton ousted from office through Impeachment, but of course Clinton would have none of that, shouting “I did NOT have sex with THAT woman” to which Newt and his clingerson found that so arousing, they had to bring in an investigator to search for semen on a blue dress or was it a cigar that landed in Clinton’s mouth after being in the nether regions of a White House intern?
For me, the best part of all of it during that era was ol’ Newt embroiled in some of his own sexual shenanigans while touting himself as the Family Values type. Oy Vey. He married one of his high school teachers when he was 19, she was 26. He was married to her for 18 years when he allegedly went to the cancer-stricken, bed-ridden, hospital-laying wife and asked for a divorce because she just didn’t do it for him anymore. Besides he was sticking it to someone else and really wanted to marry her, ya know being the family values type and all.
That someone was 23 years younger than Newt and a Congressional staffer, oh my! All of this happening at the same time Newt led the investigation into President Clinton. Now I don’t personally care what Clinton did in the Oval office. Heck, the country was hummin’ along ;) yeah, he lied, so what? What politician doesn’t? But Newt, after cheating on wife two with now wife three, to say G-d has forgiven me and so should you? Ahem…I think not. I think he needs to sidle right up to Bill and Hillary and ask for forgiveness. You know, make amends. Then it should be up to the Clintons to decide if he gets a mulligan.
Newt quit his position in the House after a government shutdown and Republicans made a horrible showing in the 1998 elections. Not unlike another high-powered Republican leaving a high-powered position who we’ve yet to hear may also make a run in 2012. They really are the cut and run party. I hate that saying, but it really works here.
But Newt’s one of those types that went to rehab or went to G-d and saw the light. He knows he can do a better job than the suddenly upright Obama. He says Obama’s got it all wrong, he’s the “Food Stamp President” and to blame for all that is not holy.
Newt says he found G-d after seeing the Pope and seeing the peace that exuded from him. Well Newt, the Pope’s never done it. Shouldn’t you be way more peaceful than the Pope given how many women you’ve had? While we’re on the subject, what’s wrong with your wife? She looks so frightened. Is it me or does she look more plastic than Cindy McCain and Nancy Pelosi all rolled up into one. Newt might want to take a step back for a minute and meditate like Mike Huckabee who just said his heart said no even though his many followers said yes to a 2012 run.
Not as salacious, but just as damning, Newt was embroiled in a nasty ethics scandal which some say was the reason he finally stepped down. He apparently misused election funds to help sweep Republicans into the majority in 1998 and was fined a stealthy 300-grand. At the time he was going to borrow the cash from Bob Dole, but then turned up the cash.
Newt was also one of several members of the House involved in “Rubbergate” where the House Bank allowed Legislators to keep overdrawn bank accounts. And this guy thinks he can bring the economy back from a banking scandal?
Over the weekend Newt said Congressman Paul Ryan had the budget bill all wrong and that his healthcare mandate and changes to Medicare were wrong for America. When he was called out by his own party, he blamed the “Elite Media”. Sounds awfully like another Cut and Runner Repub.
And all of this so easily investigated through Googling Newt’s name by a lil’ radio reporter here in Montana… Far from elite.
by jhwygirl
Boy, the events keep coming! One week before our primary, I hope we can keep up with them all!
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has announced visits to Pablo and Billings for Tuesday, May 27th. First, Clinton will speak at the Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. Doors open at 1:30 p.m., and the Senator is expected to speak sometime around 3:30 p.m. The event is entitled “Solutions for America”, and the town hall-style meeting will be held in front of Darcy McNickle Library, at the intersection of Division Street and U.S. Highway 93 North.
Later, in Billings, Clinton will speak in The Magic City at the Heritage Building in Metra Park. Doors open at 6 p.m.
by jhwygirl
Andrea Palm, Senior Health Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton is coming to town for a special Progressive Happy Hour, sponsored by Forward Montana.
Reforming our Health Care System is this coming Thursday at the Badlander. The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 5, and the presentation by Ms. Palm begins at 5:30.
Palm serves on Clinton’s senate staff, and Senator Clinton sits on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee. Palm handles the Senator’s health committee work as well as her health agenda more broadly.
This is a pretty darn unique opportunity to discuss reforming our healthcare system with a top political expert in the field.
For more information on the event, click on the Forward Montana link, above. For more specifics on Clinton’s healthcare proposal, click this.
by Pete Talbot
Apparently, Sen. Hillary Clinton is in it for the long haul. Why else would President Bill Clinton be touring Montana, again?
We don’t have all the details — especially on the Missoula event, although it’s slated for Wednesday morning, May 14. From a press release, here’s what we know about the evening gig in Kalispell:
” … President Clinton will be hosting a “Solutions for America” event tomorrow (Tuesday, May 13) in Kalispell. Please join us for the President’s third trip to Montana. The event will be held outdoors at the Blake Hall Arboretum at Flathead Valley Community College, doors opening at 7:30 p.m.”
Hope it doesn’t snow. 4&20 will update you with the specifics, including additional venues, as soon as we know.
by Pete Talbot
Here’s the link to the event, which we just received.
A cryptic email in my inbox said that the fundraiser for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had been moved up to 9 a.m. on Sunday, “to accommodate a Town Hall in Missoula that has just been added to her schedule at the Missoula International Airport.”
Details are sketchy. The “Town Hall” is tentatively scheduled for 11 a.m. There are no tickets and it will be “first come, first served” according to an email from Forward Montana, and limited to 2000 people. I’m not sure where you can fit 2000 people at the Missoula airport. Maybe the Northstar Air hangar at the east end of the airport property? It is at the Northstar-Neptune hangar. This from the official press release:
Sunday, April 6
Missoula, MT
Doors Open: 9:00 a.m. MDT
Event Begins: 11:00 a.m. MDT
Hillary Clinton Hosts a “Solutions for America” Town Hall
Northstar-Neptune Aviation at Missoula International Airport
1 Corporate Way
Missoula, MT
Anyway, 4&20 will make details available as we get them.