Hillary Needs to Go Away

It must be that people don't remember how crooked the Clintons were - are - that's leading people to vote for Hillary. They can't possibly remember the perennial scandals, malevolent legislation, or bad appointees. If they did, Hillary regaling over her supposed record (as First Lady / co-president in the 2-for-1 sale) wouldn't stand up.

Does anyone remember how badly she failed at Health Care Reform? That was her baby and people from her own party didn't support it. The whole affair was a disaster, a waste of money and actually succeeded at turning "Health Care Reform" into a bad word.

But "they" were very successful in passing NAFTA, the bill that has led to American jobs being deported and an entirely new, bigger wave of illegal immigration. They were also responsible for repealing the Glass-Steagall Act - a law that had been in place since The Great Depression, to regulate bank consolidations and behaviors. Academics, economists and anyone with a passing knowledge of financial history knows that this led to the current financial crisis. Likewise, Billary loosened the media conglomeration laws, which has led to shoddy news coverage and knee-jerk fear mongering; then the federal auditing laws that led to Enron and WorldCom. Gee, thanks.

Another of their successes was the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), passed in 1994 whose purpose is "To amend title 18, United States Code, to make clear a telecommunications carrier's duty to cooperate in the interception of communications for Law Enforcement purposes, and for other purposes." Is this what made it easy for Bush & Co. to commit unauthorized wiretapping on the nation? The prevailing thought is that the current administration is wantonly bending and breaking rules, but maybe they're just using rules that Bill & Hillary's group put in place.

Also, she's just as adept at cronyism as the Republicans. That's what Travelgate was all about. They fired people in the White House travel office in order to hire old pals. Each time Billary submitted recommendations for key admin positions, they were friends. Their Associate Attorney General was once Hillary's law partner, Web Hubbell. Down the road, he was convicted of mail fraud and tax evasion. Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood for Attorney General, Lani Guinier for the Civil Rights Commision. All three had to subsequently withdraw because of legal infractions, or in the case of Guinier, controversial rhetoric. Bill ultimately claimed ignorance of her philosophies, though they'd been friends for years.

OH, and then there was Craig Livingstone, another nail in the coffin of Bill's - ahem, Bill & Hillary's - administration. He was investigated for breaching security on something like 900 FBI files belonging to Clinton enemies. Does Filegate sound familiar? Hmmmm... Like...like...Bush's Attorney General debacle! It was more work for the Whitewater Independent Council (fancy talk for Kenneth Starr), who found nothing definite on the two in crooked real estate deals through their Whitewater Development Corporation in the 70s and 80s. Everyone else involved was convicted, but the Clintons were somehow squeaky clean? Not likely. Hill narrowly escaped prosecution herself in the Whitewater scandal where she repeated, 'I do not recall," "I have no recollection," and "I don't know" 56 times under oath.



So it was David Hale, from the Whitewater mess, that almost single-handedly brought them down, because it was during that investigation that evidence of Monica Lewinsky started to pop up; which points to another trend: they certainly like to hang around criminals. It's very apparent that their acquaintances and former partners like to get convicted. Her brothers are shady. They have a strange habit of getting paid by people who were pardoned by Bill back in the 90s. (Later reports confirmed that they actually talked to Bill about gaining those pardons.) To boot, her youngest brother Anthony Rodham stiffed his former wife, Nicole Boxer, out of $75,000 in child support, as well as $55,000 in alimony back in 2007. Even her daughter seems to be following in those footsteps. Her possible future father-in-law Edward Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud. Their six degrees chart is all screwed up.

Now, Peter F. Paul (another ex-con!) is trying to show people how dirty Billary is, in a YouTube video detailing the cliff notes of a California law suit against them for campaign fundraising fraud.

It's time that everyone remembers who the Clintons were, who they are; and more importantly, it's time to tell Hillary to sit down and shut up. We don't need anymore Clinton-Bush-style politics effin up the country.


Madeline Hatter is a freelance writer and author of the 2004 novel, Lookin' in the Mirror, which is set for re-release in second edition later this year.