BloggeRhythms

While there’s a lack of significantly interesting news, today’s items reflect subtle changes that in their own way, may change the course of the upcoming presidential election. 

Two posting’s come from Rush, the first one causing this writer to think, “Uh Oh!,” regarding Trump.

According to Greg Richter @newsmax.com: “Top conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh says Donald Trump made a "strategic error" by calling Ted Cruz "nasty" and that the billionaire’s use of liberal-language attacks should be a "red flag" to conservatives.

“Limbaugh told his radio audience Monday that "I think Trump is making a strategic error in the way he criticizes Cruz."

"I think Trump going after Cruz is quite normal; it's understandable," he continued.

"But I think he's making a tactical error the way he's doing it. Whatever you want to say, Cruz is not a nasty guy.”

The key here, is Rush’s specific reference to Trump's usage of techniques typically associated with liberals. Coming from a Buckley type “conservative,” which Rush is certainly known as, could be a hugely damaging blow to Trump’s campaign.

On the other side, Richard Valdmanis @ca.news.yahoo.com via Drudge, writes: “Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer said he is not yet prepared to back Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for president and he would not rule out supporting her main rival, Bernie Sanders, if he beats her in the primaries.

"Our real goal has been not to support any one candidate, but to emphasize and highlight the issue (of climate change) so that the candidates can lay out their solutions and so the American people can have a chance to make a decision," Steyer said in a interview on Tuesday by telephone.” 

Steyer’s the guy who made his fortune through investments, some in fossil fuel energy, at Farallon Capital Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund he founded in 1986.

Seeing an opportunity in the climate-change business: “He spent heavily in the 2014 congressional elections to back candidates who could help further his anti-fossil fuel agenda. He paid out over $70 million, more than any other single donor in both parties. Of the seven candidates he supported, three won.”

What made this item about Steyer so eye-catching is the date it was written, which is remindful of another dooms-day’er, AlGore, and the countdown clock begun by Rush on January 27th, 2006.

Back in 2006, Rush said: “Now, the last time I heard some liberal talk about "ten years" it was 1988, Ted Danson. We had ten years to save the oceans; we were all going to pay the consequences, which would result in our death. Now Al Gore says we've got ten years. Ten years left to save the planet from a scorching. Okay, we're going to start counting. This is January 27th, 2006. We will begin the count, ladies and gentlemen. This is just... You have to love these people -- from afar, and from a purely observational point of view.”

However, it’s still too soon for Rush to celebrate his predicition that AlGore would be proven wrong. Today’s only the 20th, meaning there’s still 7 days left for the planet to scorch.

As an aside, A FB friend posted this, this morning.

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.

Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne @FoxNews.com, write that, “Hillary Clinton's emails on her unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government's most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers. 

“Fox News exclusively obtained the unclassified letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that identified "several dozen" additional classified emails -- including specific intelligence known as "special access programs" (SAP).” 

 

What’s most critical here is: “That indicates a level of classification beyond even “top secret,” the label previously given to two emails found on her server, and brings even more scrutiny to the presidential candidate’s handling of the government’s closely held secrets.” 

Making things even more difficult for Bill’s wife to overcome is: “According to court documents, former CIA Director David Petraeus was prosecuted for sharing intelligence from special access programs with his biographer and mistress Paula Broadwell. At the heart of his prosecution was a non-disclosure agreement where Petraeus agreed to protect these closely held government programs, with the understanding “unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention or negligent handling … could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation.” Clinton signed an identical non-disclosure agreement Jan. 22, 2009.” Which means that a precedent for conviction has already been set for officials at the highest levels of government.

The reporters go on to state that: “Fox News is told that the recent IG letter was sent to the leadership of the House and Senate intelligence committees and leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and State Department inspector general.  

And, most importantly: “While the State Department and Clinton campaign have said the emails in questions were “retroactively classified” or “upgraded” – to justify the more than 1,300 classified emails on her server – those terms are meaningless under federal law.” Meaning that any excuses offered will not hold up under the investigation, and also leading to the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?  

That’s it for today folks.     

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