BloggeRhythms

Ever since Republicans gained Congressional majorities, hard-core conservatives have complained that very little has been accomplished by them, legislatively.

 

Although the complaining is unwarranted -because while it’s extremely difficult to institute legislation in the face of a likely presidential veto- significant Democrat efforts have been neutered or stopped completely.

 

However, yesterday progress was made that, although not likely to succeed fully, should please conservatives because of the effort being extended.

 

Stephen Dinan @washingtontimes.com, reports that: “House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz began [an] impeachment process against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on Tuesday, accusing him of misleading the public and destroying documents that were sought under a congressional subpoena.

 

“Among the specific charges leveled by Mr. Chaffetz and 18 of his fellow Republicans on the committee were that Mr. Koskinen, appointed by President Obama in December 2013 after the targeting scandal broke, misled Congress when he said he had turned over all of former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner’s emails and that he oversaw destruction of evidence when his agency got rid of backup tapes that contained the emails.”

 

While it is unclear how far the resolution will go in Congress, when added to the administration's  rampant health care tax problems, the mistakes made in the Middle-East, the stagnant economy, weak job market and Bill Clinton’s wife’s Benghazi misjudgments, it appears that things are really looking up for Republicans next November. 

 

On another subject, while the media is making huge issues regarding their perceived overthrow of the Republican establishment by outsiders like Trump and Carson, and even Fiorina, the real situation in voter preferences may be completely different.  

 

Chris Stirewalt @foxnews.com, reports today that, “As the latest poll on the race shows, only 28 percent of Republican voters said their minds were made up about their candidate choice. That’s not surprising. At this point in the 2012 cycle –96 days before the Iowa caucuses – there had already been six debates. Republicans need more input from their prospective leaders.”

 

Which means that although things may stay the same right through election day, the odds are that things will likely change dramatically over the course of the next twelve months.

 

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife, found in an article @newsweek.com, by Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

Mr. Abrams titled his column: “What the Hillary Hearing Revealed About Her Competence”

 

Regarding his own experience with Secretaries Haig, Shultz and Rice, he writes that he found that they did not bring teams with them, “but rather cobbled them together mostly from the available resources in the Department.”

 

However, he goes on, “Secretary Clinton’s case was different: she brought a team with her, consisting largely of people from her years in politics. Shultz’s closest aide, for example, was Charles Hill, a career Foreign Service officer. Haig’s was Jerry Bremer, also a career officer. This is possibly of significance because it may have explained why Stevens did not seek to get around the denial of his request for more security. He may simply not have had the relationships that would have been required to do this when the Secretary’s closest aides were political allies rather than career officers.”

 

“Given the situation in Libya, it is extraordinary to [Abrams] that no one thought to let the Secretary know that Amb. Stevens was saying he was in danger out there due to inadequate security–indeed saying that the Department’s own standards were simply not being met. And this was at a time when there had been an assassination attempt on the British ambassador.

 

“Stevens’s request was denied by the Under Secretary of State for Management, Patrick Kennedy. It appears that Kennedy never raised this with Clinton, and that no one in Clinton’s close team raised it with her. Perhaps none of them knew about it.

 

“But she says no one ever told her. As we know, she was exchanging emails on Libya with Sidney Blumenthal—but not with Chris Stevens. Putting politics aside, that is a bureaucratic failure, an indictment of the management and information system she established in the Department.”

 

So, here we have another expert, Mr. Abrams, illustrating that much like Bill’s wife’s attempts at revising health care during Clinton's presidency while knowing nothing at all about it, she made the same kind of errors as Secretary of State. A position that proved to be far above her competency level as well.

 

Which leads to the ongoing question:Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you reading this?

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios

 

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