Cankles Has Fallen

Jonah Goldberg painted captivating images in his article this past Saturday at National Review.  He imagines the veteran grifters of Team Clinton:  Lanny Davis “in the middle of a meeting with an African dictator when, suddenly, his assistant hands him a note.”  Upon reading the note, which simply read “Cankles Is Down”, Davis abruptly terminates the meeting declaring, “The Clintons need me.” 

Goldberg then directs us to the banks of a bayou where James Carville, who has caught a catfish, proceeds to devour its entrails in the manner of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gollum.  His snack is interrupted by a signal flare.  He knows instantly its meaning.  Quickly, he steps into his waiting limousine which speeds him to an MSNBC studio.  Meanwhile the other gutter rat, David Brock, “slinks out of his leather onesie” racing to his command center barking orders, “This is a level-one Alpha scenario.  Cancel all leave.”

Goldberg was, of course, thinking of action movies where grizzled old pros get together one last time to spin furiously as their dowager queen rapidly sinks in the quicksand of scandal.

Goldberg continues to posit, ”For 30 years, Hillary Clinton has been defensive bordering on paranoia (with occasional forays far over the border). For 30 years, Hillary Clinton has responded to every challenge—not just every scandal, but every challenge (like HillaryCare)—by convening huge task forces of loyalists."

We now know that Cankles’ Emailghazi troubles are just beginning as we learn that a State Department whistleblower told The Daily Signal a “boiler-room operation” was set up to hide documents after Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others attached to the CIA complex in Benghazi perished in a hail of gunfire and mortar rounds.

As one commenter noted, this movie will be a “popcorn bonanza.”

UPDATE:  Dvorak News broke the news today that the former Secretary of State used MX Logic, a spam filtering service now owned by McAfee that had full access to all her classified State Department email in unencrypted form.  It could be read, tapped, archived or forwarded to anyone in the world without anyone ever knowing.

Curmudgeonly Cartoon: Meanwhile, Back At Chappaqua

Throne-sniffer Maureen Dowd, surprised me yesterday with her “Open Letter To hdr22@clintonemail” in which she snarled, “…you knew you could count on the complicity of feminists and Democratic women in Congress” as she recounted the pathologically unpresidential behavior of her husband’s cigar fetish in the Oval Office.

Dowd goes on to say, “You seem like an annoyed queen, radiating irritation at anyone who tries to hold you accountable.”  She goes a step further giving her take on “Clinton Fatigue”, perhaps because she remains enamored with The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer saying, “You’re still idling on the runway, but we’re already jet-lagged. It’s all so drearily familiar that I know we’re only moments away from James Carville writing a column in David Brock’s Media Matters, headlined, ‘In Private, Hillary’s Really a Hoot.’”

On Saturday, March 14, 2014 Ed Klein, who broke the story about Mrs. Clinton’s email scandal, told Larry Kudlow on his WABC radio show that this Administration “is up to its eyebrows in efforts to stop” her and Valerie Jarrett has launched six investigations into her years as Secretary of State.

This movie is rated 5 out of 5 stars; so pull up your recliner, grab your popcorn and enjoy the show folks.

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Curmudgeonly Cartoon: There Will Be No Mistakes In My Rise To The Top

Saturday Night Live’s Cold Open featured Kate McKinnon in the role of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who as we all know, is fixated on becoming the first female president of the United States.

While mildly funny, I believe the skit would have been considerably funnier if there had been a “Billy Jeff” character seated on the sofa with Cankles and the infamous homebrew server in plain view of the couple.

Curmudgeonly Cartoon: Foggy Bottom’s “Emailghazi”

Liar, liar pantsuit on fire.

The highly unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official physically running her own email would have given Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, impressive control over limiting access to her message archives. It also would distinguish Clinton's secretive email practices as far more sophisticated than some politicians, including Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, who were caught conducting official business using free email services operated by Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.

“it was a planned maneuver to give the Clintons more control over their electronic correspondence.”