Today’s first item jumped off of the page, not only because of the subject, but especially due to the source. An article by Nicholas Confessore and Amy Chozick in The New York Times Politics section is headlined: “Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finances and Ambitions”
The reporters state that, “For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.”
Reading through the well-researched verbiage, several things stood out which prove to me that the old adage about leopards never changing their spots is absolutely true. For instance “Concern was rising inside and outside the organization about Douglas J. Band, a onetime personal assistant to Mr. Clinton who had started a lucrative corporate consulting firm — which Mr. Clinton joined as a paid adviser — while overseeing the Clinton Global Initiative, the foundation’s glitzy annual gathering of chief executives, heads of state, and celebrities.”
So, here we have an inside deal through a third-party, Mr. Band, who’s overseeing a major function of the foundation and hiring Willy back as a paid consultant. And while I have no evidence whatsoever, to me it sounds like money-laundering 101.
And then it was reported that this fall, “Mrs. Clinton and her staff will move into offices at the foundation’s new headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, occupying two floors of the Time-Life Building. Amid speculation about her 2016 plans, Mrs. Clinton is adding major new initiatives on women, children and jobs to what has been renamed the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.”
And although “today, big-name companies vie to buy sponsorships at prices of $250,000 and up, money that has helped subsidize the foundation’s annual operating costs," and last year, "the foundation and two subsidiaries had revenues of more than $214 million," the foundation’s expansion has "also been accompanied by financial problems. In 2007 and 2008.”
It seems that “the foundation also found itself competing against Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign for donors amid a recession. Millions of dollars in contributions intended to seed an endowment were diverted to other programs, creating tension between Mr. [Ira] Magaziner and Mr. Band. The foundation piled up a $40 million deficit during those two years, according to tax returns. Last year, it ran more than $8 million in the red.” And I just have to wonder where all that money went.
So it seems that just like all the things that happened in Arkansas that couldn’t be explained, and then Willy’s lying under oath, if the Clinton’s are involved the odds are extremely strong that something's either illegal or at least very wrong.
But the most important part to me is that this is August of 2013, with three years to go until the next presidential election. And if the New York Times, staunchest supporter imaginable of Democrat candidates is finding fault with the Clinton’s now, who knows how bad it can get for Hillary when things heat up down the line?
Then there was more bad news for Dem’s, in this case the incumbent as usual.
According to therightscoop via Drudge, “NBC News contacted around 20 small businesses and other entities for this report and found that employee hours are being cut to 29 hours because of Obamacare, despite the delay of the employer mandate.”
The White House, however “says that there is no systematic evidence that this is because of Obamacare and dismisses the report as anecdotal.”
So, here we have total denial again, despite mounting evidence everywhere that the new healthcare tax is coming apart at the seams. The only real question I have left, is exactly how are they going to blame “W” Bush for this fiasco which has been the administration's standard excuse for each and every mistake they’ve ever made.
And finally, I couldn’t resist adding another item on one of my very favorite subjects.
The Washington Free Beacon Staff reports that “Not a single person showed up at the Georgetown waterfront Tuesday for a climate change agenda event put on by Organizing for Action, the shadowy nonprofit advocacy group born out of President Obama’s 2012 campaign.”
To me, that’s a perfect paragraph that needs no further comment whatsoever.
In conclusion, I guess that this wasn’t a very good day for Democrats at all. But, as I keep repeating over and over, people may not make lot’s of noise about their unhappiness or displeasure, but that doesn’t mean they’re not doing anything about it.
So, I’m just sitting here making my comments and patiently waiting. Because I have a sense that this administration’s going to implode like a building with dynamite charges blown in its corners. Especially since the situation gets worse for the incumbent each and every time he so frequently opens his mouth.
That’s it for today folks.
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