Harry, Hillary, Bill - the Gang Leaders of the Democrat Party Establishment

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid recently dismissed the entire group of 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls, calling Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul "losers." Reid also called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell "a lump of coal." The 2016 candidates shouldn't feel too bad. Reid has said similiar things to GOP presidential candidates - and Presidents - in the past. He once called George W. Bush a "loser," and told him “your dog is fat" when visiting the Oval Office. Reid called former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney “kind of a joke." ~~~~~ A nice way for the highest ranking Democrat in Congress -- and the de facto leader of the Democratic Party, since President Obama has long since opted out of the job -- to behave. But the conservative media is busy with another 'Harry Reid' story. Apparently, some in the media who follow Reid doubt his version of the events that led to his injury and lack of sight in one eye. Reid says he was hit in the face by an elastic exercise band that broke, causing him to fall down and injure himself. But, almost immediately after the New Year's Day incident, John Hinderaker of the conservative Power Line blog speculated that Reid "looks like he has been in a fight, and not with an elastic band. [P]erhaps Reid is an unsteady, elderly gentleman with precarious balance, and a snapping band caused him to fall with what seems like extraordinary force. But I doubt it. I think it is questionable whether we are being told the truth about what happened to Harry Reid." Rumors abound that Reid was beat up by angry mobster-types. ~~~~~ This just adds to the sense of conservatives that Demicrat leaders are a scummy bunch. And we may now - if we haven't already - add Hillary Clinton to the miserable gang of Democratic leaders. Members of her campaign staff actually drove "ordinary" Iowans to Hillary's first campaign stop -- including an "ordinary" health care 'lobbyist in training' who was an Obama campaign intern and Joe Biden's chauffeur. That would fit right in with Harry Reid's less than perfect sense of propriety. And, while Hillary arrived in Iowa by van, stopping for a burrito salad at a Chipotle where she left no tip -- ah yes, she is all for raising the minimum wage but not by digging into her own fat wallet to help young service industry workers -- she left by plane. Enough elbow-rubbing wirh ordinary folk, it would seem. And about that higher minimum wage, as well as her desire to forge income equality and to tighten campaign finance laws after she has amply benefitted from them -- Mrs. Clinton won't put any meat on these policy bones for 6 to 8 weeks. She needs time to talk to real people to find out what her policies should be. This is the woman who would be President, so if she is elected, we may expect one floor of the Old Executive Office Building to be dedicated to Hillary's Ordinary People Marketing Panel. I hope they're ready when that 3 a.m. phone call comes. Otherwise, the world will just have to wait till 9 a.m. for its answer so that Hillary can talk it over with her OPMP. ~~~~~ Who in Congress has endorsed Clinton? The Hill is keeping a tab of lawmakers she’s garnered -- 93 lawmakers, or nearly 40% of Democrats in Congress. That almost matches the 99 endorsements she picked up during her failed 2008 presidential bid. This strong support, the Hill writes, could push Hillary Clinton to the left and help hold back any potential Democratic challengers, including former Maryland Governor O'Malley. However, progressives on Capitol Hill haven’t heard enough from Hillary Clinton. According to the controlling left side of the Democratic Party, Hillary needs to do more to satisfy them. “I’m glad that she’s talking about income inequality,” Representative Raul Grijalva, co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told the National Journal. But Grijalva said : "Specificity is what people are going to ask about, and firm declaration.” (Where is that OPMP when Hillary needs them?) Twenty lawmakers have signed on to an effort to push White House contenders to embrace a progressive agenda, with issues including Wall Street reform and Social Security expansion. Some liberal groups are still hoping for a challenger more leftist than Clinton, according to the National Journal, but most congressional progressives have decided to encourage Clinton to embrace more of their leftist ideals. ~~~~~ Meanwhile, Clinton said on Tuesday : "There's something wrong when hedge-fund managers pay lower taxes than nurses or the truckers I saw on I-80 when I was driving here over the last two days." Wall Street's reaction was Realpolitik. A major Democratic donor on Wall Street responded to Clinton’s ripping hedge-fund managers’ taxes on Tuesday by saying : "It’s just politics.” Politico writes that hedge-fund managers who have long been part of Clinton’s political and fundraising networks aren’t worrying about her put-down : “The question is not going to be whether or not hedge-fund managers or CEOs make too much money,” another Clinton supporter who manages a hedge fund told Politico : “The question is how do you solve the problem of inequality. Nobody takes it like she s going after them personally.” ~~~~~ Dear readers, Hillary is in the race. But we don't yet know what she stands for, except seemingly to appease the left side of the Democrat Party establishment where Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Governor O'Malley are lurking. What we need to remember is that Hillary -- with all her botched efforts as Secretary of State and her privately stored and destroyed official government business emails -- is part of a completely private political party called "Bill and Hillary Clinton Forever." They crave...they feed on...power. The down-home Hillary of 2016 is just as power-hungry as the Bill of 1992. They have out-manoeuvered the entire Democrat Party. They have survived scandals and unexplained deaths and hoarding money by using the world's problems to fleece governments seeking favor at the Clinton royal court. What they have not yet done is close their playbook by electing Hillary President. We can cut short the Clinton plan by refusing to let America be bought with $26 worth of Clinton glass beads. Just consider the cynical contempt for American voters revealed in this piece of news -- As Hillary Clinton spoke about stopping runaway campaign funding, a group of big Democratic donors, including Clinton allies, were convening in California to talk about spending millions of dollars on liberal groups. The New York Times reported last week that her campaign and her allies will likely haul in $2.5 billion, "dwarfing her would-be rivals in both parties."