Exit Bubba
[guest post by JVW]
No matter how you feel about the new President, one thing we all (well, most of us anyway) can agree upon is that the marginalization of the Clinton Family is a most welcome development. The restoration of the House of Clinton, which came ever so close to being realized, is now permanently on hold, and despite the fondest wishes of their last remaining sycophants (Hello Sid Blumenthal! Hello David Brock!) it seems to be inconceivable that Hillary! will upset the Big Applecart (I promise I don’t have too many of these bad puns in me) and take on incumbent mayor Bill de Blasio, no matter how wretched his management of the city may be. Meanwhile, daughter Chelsea shows no inclination to give up the posh life as an independently-wealthy part-time college administrator to enter the grubby political scene, especially the sewer of Democrat politics in New York. Thus, the Clintons appear to be for all practical purposes over and done with.
I had been meaning to put up a post on an interesting development from last week, namely the announcement of the imminent shuttering of the Clinton Global Initiative. I guess it turns out that once you have no more influence to trade, donations from foreign sources have a way of drying up. Oh sure, the Clintons can plausibly claim that they had stopped raising money from overseas sources last summer when confidence of Hillary!’s certain election victory was at its peak, so this development was in the works all along. But given that neither she nor Bubba really have anything to do these days it is kind of hard to imagine why they wouldn’t throw themselves into — ahem, ahem — all the valuable work that the Clinton Global Initiative does unless this is a case where no one any longer wants to buy what they have to sell.
And that of course brings us to Bill, our forty-second President and almost our first First Gentleman (yeah, I involuntarily shudder too). It’s hard not to imagine the mixed emotions that must be swirling through the ol’ lyin’ horndog’s mind, at once lamenting his blown opportunity to return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue while at the same time no doubt being relieved that he is free to return to his usual trashy ways. Geoffrey Norman has a terrific essay at The American Spectator on Bubba’s descent into irrelevancy:
It can’t be easy for any ex-president, the exile from the stage. The world of politics and celebrity has been to Bill Clinton as the oceans are to a great shark. If he stops swimming, the shark dies. But there will be another big fish swimming the same waters, and Barack Obama is now a far brighter and newer star than Clinton, with minimal ethical baggage and no lost elections on his résumé. He will be in much hotter demand than a man who has been out of the White House for 16 years.
Quite right. Bill’s brand of whatever-55%-of-the-country-is-for-is-exactly-what-I-am-for politics which served him so well in an era of post-Cold War peace and dot-com-boom prosperity has been eclipsed by Barack Obama’s dammit-we’re-on-the-right-side-of-history brand of ideological purity filtered through he noxious dual-valve carburetor of grievance politics and faculty-lounge groupthink. Obama, who expressed a backhanded contempt for Clinton’s largely risk-adverse agenda after the Democrats’ inglorious defeat in the 1994 midterm elections, may not have had much success in imposing his will on the country after the GOP ended Nancy Pelosi’s speakership in the 2010 midterms, but he leaves office with the party pretty much coalesced around his basic notions of a large and powerful bureaucracy emboldened by copious intrusive legislation managing virtually aspect of a citizen’s day-to-day life. The idea of a white male from the South ever rising to the upper echelon of the Democrat machine seems so farfetched these days that even after Hillary’s tough loss there is pretty much no one who expects Tim Kaine to be a serious candidate for the party’s Presidential nomination in 2020.
So goodbye, Bubba. You were crass, crude, craven, and corrupt, but you always made it interesting. Once upon a time you were even considered to be the first black President, but in the end your inauthenticity and artifice not to mention your insistence on feeding your own inflated ego before deigning to serve others, will probably render you just another footnote to history.
[Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.]
– JVW
but people blew upwards of a hundred and fifty million dollars trying to restore the house of tawdry useless elitist Bushfilth
happyfeet (28a91b) — 1/25/2017 @ 7:04 amNow that the election is over, the Clintons and the Obamas can stop pretending to like each other, and they can all stop pretending to like America.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/25/2017 @ 7:43 amThank you President Mr Donald for making the Clintons and Obamas less great again!
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/25/2017 @ 7:44 amSeeing all the stories over the past weeks about the Clinton’s money-laundering scheme coming to an almost complete halt has been a joy.
Welcome to the party!
harkin (afc7a6) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:01 amWe now have a real American in the White House. The economy is rapidly strengthening. Optimism is back in style. And I couldn’t be more confident in the future.
At long last, we’re free of the alien totalitarianism that nearly subverted our republic.
ropelight (59f18e) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:19 amShe’s circulating rumors that she may be interested in running the Big Apple. If she’s really serious she will try to gain the Republican nomination, and run as Fusion candidate. Otehrs say she’ll run if de Blasio is indicted. They’re not talking about her being indicted but this is probably a real possibility, and they know it, and everything they do should be seen in that light.
It’s too early. They were talking of trying to get her into Congress (in 2108) from Nita Lowey’s district in Westchester, and the Clintons actually boughht a house next door that they said was to be used as a guest house for Chelsea and her famly.
That was probably premised both on her mother winning the Presidency and Nita Lowey retiring,
It also might be useful in avoiding indictment and/or having resources poured into an investigation..
Mayor de Blasio also shut down his political nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York when questions were raised.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-nonprofit-campaign-new-york-operated-article-1.2905175
Sammy Finkelman (dec35d) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:30 amI would prefer the Egyptian custom where they chisel off the names of all public buildings, talk about shovel ready jobs.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:33 amWould Obama stump for DiBlasio out of spite? And is HRC running in the R primary a strategy for blocking out someone like a Dan Donovan? The NYC mayoral election is not a jungle set-up so conceivably a third candidate could run on the November general ballot under a Conservative party line?
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:36 amOn my way back from a check up at Penn lung center yesterday June and I stopped at an Aye-talian joint for lunch/dinner and sitting at the bar were a few friends of mine (there is always a few friends of mine seated at every bar at all times, it’s the law). One noted liberal who I haven’t seen since before the election said: “You must be happy Trump won, Hoagie”. I responded: “I’m happy Hillary lost”.
This is the same guy who has berated me for having off shore accounts as many times as I explained it’s for our businesses in Asia he still thinks I’m some kind of tax evading international elitist. I was pleased to poke a stick at the Clinton’s closing the oft cited-for-its-compassionate-philanthropy “Global Initiative” and moving of it’s assets off shore (to protect them from seizure no doubt).
His response is the now-normal leftist response of “Hillary got 52% of the vote so she really won” which is all the rage.
Somewhere between 11/8 and 11/9 all of liberaldom lost its collective minds. But we still have this to remind us:
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4tzvUYi0vyc/WIbQJmSYoSI/AAAAAAABFAA/elGtvEN0EVMFh-269JdNiybcuk_UBK3OACLcB/s640/old%2B1ninetymileszMoUG1tqnoyio1_500.png
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:38 amAside from all his faults, Trump ended both the Bush and Clinton dynasties. On a similar note, Chelsea did have the class to tell everyone to leave Barron alone. The classiest thing a Clinton ever did.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
windbag (47f3d7) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:48 amDavid brick is behind that false flag crew initiative.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:53 am“No lost elections on his resume'”?
The myth that Obama never lost an election is just as fake as the rest of his bio.
Obama lost a 2000 congressional primary election in Chicago against Bobby Rush. And Obama lost big too. Rush got a little over 60% of the vote, compared to Obama’s 30%. In fact, Obama’s loss was so bad that wife Michelle reportedly was going to divorce him over it.
Observer (a5fefa) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:19 amWell he didn’t lose his first race, because he had all his other candidates disqualified,
narciso (d1f714) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:26 am* in 2018!
Nobody seems to be talking about the possibility of Bill or Hillary Clinton being indicted, but this is probably a real possibility, and the Clintons know it, and everything they do should be seen in that light.
An upcoming election acts like a shield against indictment, according to Justice Department guidelines.
Sammy Finkelman (dec35d) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:27 amExcept if you’re bush sr or sen Ted Stevens, who is unavailable for comment
narciso (d1f714) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:30 amnarciso (d1f714) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:33 am
Ramses II didn’t just chisel off names from public buildings, he put his own name on them (and also named a city, and a whole section of the country, after himself, acording to what you read in the Bible.)
Sammy Finkelman (dec35d) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:31 amHis response is the now-normal leftist response of “Hillary got 52% of the vote so she really won” which is all the rage.
It’s remarkable how many left-wingers believe that Hillary won a majority — and not a 48% plurality — of the popular vote. It has become so widespread that I can’t help but think that it’s a deliberate bit of misinformation sent out to the mush-minds so that they repeat it.
But I also revel in reminding my Clinton-loving friends that Bubba didn’t win a majority of the popular vote in either of his elections, but George W. Bush did in 2004.
JVW (6e49ce) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:32 amThe Left is engaging in mob violence all over the world.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/25/woman-beaten-antifa-wearing-spain-flag/
But there’s such a cognitive dissonance to their ideology.
On the one hand, they claim to loathe authority all the while they run around in hoods and masks doling out authority to anyone they believe is deserving of a beating.
Even more ironic is the fact they support the most authoritarian regimes in the world.
I hate authority but I love me some Castro! is so Orwellian.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:46 am==It has become so widespread that I can’t help but think that it’s a deliberate bit of misinformation sent out to the mush-minds so that they repeat it.==
Oh JVW, you so funny!
elissa (339c0c) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:48 amOnly a seeming paradox, they topple regimes in order to create more impregnable ones
narciso (d1f714) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:50 amAnd yet Bush came within a smaller stadium – only 60,000 votes in Ohio – of losing the Electoral College in 2004 (an oft repeated phrase after the last election was that Hillary’s margin of loss in MI-WI-PA was smaller than either of their flagship Big10 U’s football stadium. They would have worshipped the EC as sacrosanct if that happened.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 1/25/2017 @ 9:55 am“the Clintons appear to be for all practical purposes over and done with.”
It would be pretty to think so, but i will believe it when Shrillary fails to mount a serious campaign for the nomination in 2020. If I were Chelsea, I would arrange to be ‘caught’ doing something legal but massively disqualifying, to keep Mommy Dearest from pushing me into a political career. Marrying a Republican springs to mind.
C. S. P. Schofield (99bd37) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:00 amWho the hell would want that, unless there is a scion/mogul in need of bearding.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:09 amChelsea is already married.
Sammy Finkelman (dec35d) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:17 amIf Trump isn’t pointing out that, in any event, Hillary got less than 50%, do you expect anybody else to? The word majority is never usd by the way.
Sammy Finkelman (dec35d) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:19 amObama and “minimal ethical baggage”?
Well, he always did pack light in the ethics department, but I don’t think that’s what they mean.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:24 amMr. President Trump’s too classy to dwell on that stuff
he has to do all the deregulate for so the jobs happen
plus national defense
happyfeet (28a91b) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:25 amChelsea is already married.
Well, then marrying a Republican would certainly do it.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:25 amMr Ted knocked out Deadspin. He singlehandedly put the dead in Deadspin!
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/01/25/ted-cruz-wins-twitter-with-humorous-response-to-deadspin/
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:31 amReminder: White House press briefing starting now on Cspan. Should be an interesting one today.
elissa (909106) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:31 amelissa, I can’t wait to see if the press corpsmen (LOL) start quizzing President Mr Donald about the attendance at the New York Knicks’ last home game.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:39 amReading the responses (especially from the graceless writer at Deadspin who decided to pour gas on her self-immolation) was a real treat yesterday.
I never knew there were that many variations of telling someone they’ve been completely pwned. Deadspin (and all of what remains of Gawker Media) is merely a generator of DNC-inspired snark memes posing as a sports news site. Couldn’t happen to a better nest of toads.
As Cruz himself said: “that escalated fast”.
Harkin (afc7a6) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:41 amThis just in, CNN blew up their own bogus memo, re the inaugural, next up that apocryphal rendition memo.
narciso (d1f714) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:43 amWell, under the Obama DOD and VA, they were “corpse-men”.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 1/25/2017 @ 10:56 amMawdie for Mayor???????
“It is balloooon!” – Chief Wild Eagle [Frank de Kova] ‘F-Troop’ 1966
DCSCA (797bc0) — 1/25/2017 @ 11:16 amTrump’s on fire. The American people will support him and follow his policies so long as they believe he’s leading them in a direction that’s right for the country.
So far, so good.
ropelight (59f18e) — 1/25/2017 @ 12:24 pmthings of interest,
http://forward.com/opinion/360963/womens-march-organizers-should-be-more-careful-about-the-company-they-keep/
narciso (d1f714) — 1/25/2017 @ 1:43 pmHillary Rodham Clinton.
“… you did-n’t make it aft-er alllll. =meow=”
DCSCA (797bc0) — 1/25/2017 @ 8:46 pm