Politiks As Usual: In The News 3/16/14

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Bill Clinton Poses With Prostitutes Barbie Girl and Ava Adora at Humanitarian Gala

Some things never change. Then too you'd be a fool not to go after Hillary for sticking with this guy if she chooses to run for POTUS in the near future:

What would Hillary say?

Former President Bill Clinton raised eyebrows on Friday night when he paused to snap a photo with two prostitutes at the star-studded charity ball Unite4Charity.

Clinton, 67, was working the crowd at the fancy LA gala when he paused to take a picture with two young fans, Ava Adora and Barbie Girl, two sex workers from the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel in Moundhouse, Nevada.

The working girls were the invited guests of Dennis Hof, the 68-year-old proprietor of the brothel made famous by HBO's series "Cathouse."

"These two girls are just incredible fans of Bill Clinton," Hof told the Daily News. "They kept saying, 'Please take me, Daddy.'"

RELATED: Rand Paul Continues Piling on Clinton: He’s a ‘Bad Role Model’ for Women’s Rights

Rand Paul Responds to Barack Obama, Peter King Taking Shots at Him on Unemployment, NSA

Mediaite.com:

During his big speech on unemployment Tuesday, President Obama took a veiled shot at Rand Paul for arguing that extended unemployment benefits would not help fix unemployment. Paul responded on The Steve Malzberg Show Tuesday, firing back at Obama’s “big-hearted, small-brained policy statements.”

Paul charged that Democrats “don’t truly care about the unemployed” and all they have is emotional arguments because “their policies haven’t worked.” Malzberg added that the Democrats are “demagoguing this issue,” and found it odd they’re treating millions of unemployed people as a travesty but brushed aside the millions whose insurance plans were trashed as a result of new health care standards.

Paul also addressed Republican congressman Peter King accusing him of not caring if Americans die as the result of a terrorist attack because of his class-action lawsuit against the NSA. Paul said, “I think there’ll always be people who succumb to fear and are ready and willing to trade their liberty for security.” 

He also said that politicians like King simply “don’t seem to be concerned about your liberty.”

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Bill Clinton Says Barack Obama Should Keep His Promise About People Keeping Their Health Plans

Mediaite.com:

President Bill Clinton admonished President Barack Obama on Tuesday in an interview with Ozymandias over the number of people losing their health insurance plans who were assured that they could keep them if they were happy with that coverage. He advised the president to keep his promise which would probably require seeking administrative fixes to the law’s strict grandfathering regulations.

Clinton said that low-income young people in particular are the most adversely affected by the fact that many plans purchased on the individual insurance market are being cancelled. 

Clinton cited one person he spoke with recently who told him that the new plan he received as a result of the Affordable Care Act was cheaper when he needed health care, but he still balked at the idea of having to pay for expensive coverage he did not feel he required. 

“So I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got,” Clinton said. 

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Jon Stewart Applauds Rand Paul For Using Filibuster Over Drones Issue ‘Worth Kicking Up A Fuss For’

Mediaite.com:

Jon Stewart tonight briefly addressed today’s filibuster by Senator Rand Paul, acknowledging that while he doesn’t see eye-to-eye on much with the Kentucky senator, he credited his attempt to make a very public fuss over whether the government can order drone strikes on American citizens on U.S. soil. The rest of the segment was devoted to Head Start and conservative opposition to President Obama calling for universal pre-school, with Stewart asking what, if not children’s education, the country should invest in.

Stewart was stunned to find that Paul was actually doing a “good old-fashioned actual talkie filibuster” like the kind our grandparents used to see, highlighting how attorney general Eric Holder basically said in a letter to Paul that technically speaking, they would necessarily rule it out. Stewart praised Paul for using the filibuster “the way it’s meant to be used” and said that “drone oversight is one [issue] certainly worth kicking up a fuss for.”

Stewart then moved on to conservatives raising questions about Obama’s proposal of universal pre-school. Stewart mocked objections ranging from the rising amount of paperwork to how pre-school is “not effective after the third grade,” dryly saying that “at that point you’re supposed to go to the fourth grade!”

Stewart said that one could either suggest that Head Start could be applied to the third grade, or that the “benefits of the program only last a few years, so fuck it!” Stewart marveled at how people were objecting to how much money it would cost, suggesting that children should just “get jobs and pay for it themselves!” He pointed out how the military wants more people to have basic early child development, suggesting a few military division: “SEAL Team Actually 6.”

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Rand Paul Brutalizes Hillary Clinton: ‘Had I Been President’ I Would Have Fired You

Mediaite.com:

During Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Congressional testimony regarding what she knew about the attack on an American consulate in Benghazi last year, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) took the opportunity of his question to bluntly attack Clinton’s negligence in the months preceding the attack. Paul thanked Clinton for taking culpability for “the worst tragedy since 9/11,” but noted that, if he had been President of the United States at the time of the attack and had learned that Clinton failed to read some key diplomatic cables before that event, he would have relieved her of her post.

Paul’s opening statement prior to his question for Sec. Clinton consisted of a savage rebuke of her leadership of the State Department leading up to the attack in Benghazi:

One of the things that disappointed me most about the original 9/11 is that no one was fired. We spent trillions of dollars, but there were a lot of human errors. These are judgment errors and the people who make judgment errors need to be replaced, fired, and no longer in the position of making these judgment calls.
So, we have a review board – review board finds 64 different things that we can change. A lot of them are common sense and should be done, but the question is it’s a failure of leadership that they weren’t done in advance. And four lives were cost because of this.
I’m glad that you’re accepting responsibility. I think that, ultimately, with your leaving, you accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11. And I really mean that.
Had I been president at the time, and I found that you did not read the cables from Benghazi, you did not read the cables from Ambassador [Chris] Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post. I think it’s inexcusable.

“Not to know of the request for securities, really, I think, cost these people their lives,” he added. “Their lives could have been saved had someone been more available. Had someone been aware of these things – more on top of the job.” 

“I think it’s good that you’re accepting responsibility, because no one else is,” Paul concluded. “There is a certain amount of culpability to the worst tragedy since 9/11, and I’m glad you’re accepting this.”

Paul went on to ask Clinton what she knew about possible shipments of weapons from Libya to Turkey and if the United States was involved in that transfer. Clinton appeared perplexed by the question. She said that she had no knowledge of any weapons transfers from Libya to Turkey, let alone any U.S. involvement in such a transfer. 

RELATED: WATCH: Democratic Members Of Congress Fawn Over Hillary Clinton During Benghazi Hearings

Politiks As Usual: In The News 1/21/13

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 9/10/12

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The Godless Democrats

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 6/11/12

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Sarah Palin Talks About Whether She'd Serve in a Romney Administration

The Immorality Of Liberals

Does Nancy Pelosi always Have To Be A Jerk?

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John McCain: Obama Ultimately Responsible for Security Leaks

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Candy Crowley Grills David Axelrod On Obama’s ‘Private Sector Is Doing Fine’ Remark

Soros Mega-Foundation's New U.S. Chief Has Ties To Obama Administration, Corzine

State Department Purges Religious Freedom Section from Its Human Rights Reports

Voter Rights Are Not Free

Sen. Rand Paul: ‘I Didn’t Think [Obama's] Views On Marriage Could Get Any Gayer’

Mediaite.com:

Senator Rand Paul spoke this weekend at the Faith and Freedom Coalition meeting in Iowa, and in the middle of his speech he got around to President Obama making news this week on gay marriage. Despite Paul’s libertarian views, he does not support gay marriage, but he does favor letting the states decide (which is essentially Obama’s position too). Paul noted Obama’s explanation that his views on the issue have been evolving for some time, and remarked, “Call me cynical, but I wasn’t sure his views on marriage could get any gayer.”


Paul also hit Obama for suggesting his pro-gay marriage position is consistent with the words of the Bible, to which the senator asked which version of the book the president has been reading all these years. Paul did make it clear he doesn’t want to be “preaching hateful dogma” against anyone, but he insisted taking a principled stance against gay marriage is part of keeping with solid Christian traditions that range back over 6000 years.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 1/31/11

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Fellow Democrats Slam Jack Conway's Personal Attacks On Rand Paul

When your own party is calling you out for being an a-hole you know you're in trouble:

Democrats in Kentucky and elsewhere seem ready to bail -- perhaps wholesale -- on Democrat Jack Conway for his "mocking Christianity" attack on Dr. Rand Paul.

"I wouldn't have done it," Rep. John Yarmuth, the popular Louisville Democrat who is also a member of the House leadership, told The Huffington Post. "And it looks like it's backfiring."

Yarmuth spoke to me before a planned appearance on "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, in which Matthews harshly grilled Conway about a new TV ad and debate attack. In them, Conway says that Paul "mocked Christianity" by being a member in college of a group that had been banned for its activities by school authorities.

Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri criticized the ad theme, and other Democrats have privately done so, but open criticism from the politically savvy Yarmuth -- on the ballot in Kentucky with Conway -- is a sign that the ad is rapidly coming to be regarded as a one-step-too-far move in a year in which nothing seems to be over the line.

Rand Paul And Sarah Palin Take A Victory Lap On FBN’s Freedom Watch

Mediaite.com:

Sarah Palin capped off a primary week most pundits called as a resounding victory for her dropping by the libertarian Fox Business show Freedom Watch. Sharing the stage with one of the most controversial successful Tea Party candidates, Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, Palin explained what it meant to her to watch Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell win after being criticized severely by Karl Rove and other prominent Republicans.


Asked to assess the victory in terms of national public opinion, Palin argued that O’Donnell was right when she noted “this is just a reflection of the sentiment of voters that are saying ‘no more of the same’” and wanted to see “smarter, smaller government.” She also expressed her hope that Tea Party leaders would not veer towards the “middle, which is really governing towards the left,” and shrugged off criticisms of O’Donnell that she was ill-prepared in terms of education to handle a legislative position: “I hear that and I think, ‘Christine, join the club.’”

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Sarah Palin: Rachel Maddow Was 'Prejudiced In Her Rand Paul Interview

HuffPo.com:

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accused MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Sunday of conducting a "prejudiced" interview with Rand Paul, in which the Tea Party candidate infamously aired skepticism about the reach of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

Speaking to "Fox News Sunday," the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee said that Paul was being subjected to the same biased media coverage that marked her run for office, before offering her Tea Party-backed candidate a bit of advice. 

"One thing we can learn in this lesson that I have learned and Rand Paul is learning now is don't assume that you can engage in a hypothetical discussion about constitutional impacts with a reporter or a media personality who has an agenda, who may be prejudiced before they even get into the interview in regards to what your answer may be," Palin said. "You know, they are looking for the gotcha moment. And that evidently appears to be what they did with Rand Paul, and I'm thankful he clarified his answer about his support for the Civil Rights Act."

Paul sparked several days worth of controversial coverage when he suggested to Maddow that the government had meddled too far into private enterprise in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and other legislation.

Good to see Sarah Palin exposing Rachel Maddow for the overrated, lying, left-wing agenda-driven smear machine that she is (to think there's some idiots on the Left who view Maddow as the 2nd coming of Walter Cronkite). Rand Paul became George Soros' latest whipping boy for doing nothing more than offering a libertarian perspective on the Civil Rights Act, nothing more, nothing less. But when you're desperate, losing election after election and sagging in national approval rating polls, there's nothing like having a red herring (esp, if it involves race) to throw in the mix and get people distracted from the real problems facing this country, much less who's causing them. People have a right to agree or disagree with Paul's libertarian views, but trying to make him out to be a "RACIST!!!" when there's no smoking gun (and which he's flat-out denied hundreds of times) is just pathetic.