Glenn Reynolds:
“Someone somewhere should have told her no.” Those are the words of a Clinton ally quoted in a roundup of Democratic reactions to Hillary Clinton’s FBI news by congressional newspaper The Hill.And, despite the fact that they come from a Clinton supporter, albeit an angry and disappointed one, they may illustrate the best reason for choosing Donald Trump instead of Clinton.
Here’s the full quote:
“I’m livid, actually. . . .This has turned into malpractice. It’s an unforced error at this point. I have no idea what Comey is up to but the idea this email issue is popping back up again is outrageous. It never should have occurred in the first place. Someone somewhere should have told her no. And they didn’t and now we’re all paying the price.”
Someone, somewhere, should have told her no. Well, yes. But who? That was the problem with Secretary of State Clinton, and it will be a bigger problem with a President Clinton. Because, by all appearances, nobody tells Clinton no, and Clinton has no compunction about breaking the rules when it suits her purposes.
Thus the Clinton Foundation became a global money-laundering and influence-peddling organization without precedent in American history. Donors to the foundation were encouraged to steer money to what one employee called “Bill Clinton, Inc.,” and later to Clinton. State Department personnel did favors for people who donated money to the Foundation. And to make sure that nobody found out what was going on, Clinton ran her own homebrew server operation designed to ensure that Freedom of Information Act requests turned up nothing — and even President Obama, rather than saying no, went along, sending her emails at her non-government address under a fake name.
Someone somewhere should have told her no. But if the president wasn’t going to tell her no, who would? Staff at the State Department? They might have been willing to tell some other secretary of state no, but Clinton? Too risky, it seems. They certainly went along without visible objection, and without even leaks.
The press? When The New York Times reported Clinton’s secret, illegal server, Politico’s Glenn Thrush, far from condemning it, called it “badass.”
Congress? Clinton has stonewalled and run rings around numerous committeesinvestigating her. Besides, Congress had already told her no, in the form of statutes governing the treatment of government communications and classified information. She just ignored those rules and did what she wanted. Hotel magnate Leona Helmsley famously said that “only little people pay taxes.” Clinton seems to feel the same way about obeying laws.
And, of course, liberals think this is just great… until it gets turned on them. If they get in between Hillary and making money, they go down, too.
Someone should have told her no.
This was one of the funniest things we learned, gleaned, really, from all these Wikileaks.
Someone had to try to convince Hillary to drink more of her special heavy water (that sticks to your throat.) No one wanted the job.
Someone had to try to sober Hillary up one afternoon for a 3:30 meeting.
Again, no one wanted the job.
Hillary cancelled three ”rallies” since this FBI story broke, but she managed to find a bar with 6 people inside in the morning.
She had momosas (champaign and OJ).
Perhaps she stumped for votes while she was drinking.
Have you ever noted Hillary’s smile?
When she is in campaign mode it is phony and too big.
When she is drinking it looks quite natural.
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My gal Kitt and I are gonna get DRUNK no matter the outcome
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