The Bashing Of Hillary Clinton

 

 

 

President Obama who? Reading the newspaper these days it appears that the Republicans are going more and more after Hillary Clinton than the President.

The papers are filled these days with relentless attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The entire effort to keep Benghaiz alive as an issue is nothing more than the kickoff of the Republican campaign for President in 2016. Never have I seen a more pitiful attempt to take a sad and tragic moment in State Department history and use it for blatant political purposes.

There is no question that the death of the Ambassador and his team was horrifying and everyone wishes that the military could have responded in thirty seconds to save them. The attack was a tragic moment in this world that is filled with terrorism. Secretary Clinton did nothing wrong. Period.

Really, Republicans? Terrorists attacks on consulate's and embassy's started with Benghaiz? Really?

In the eight years of the Presidency of George W. Bush there were a DOZEN terrorists attacks on American embassy's and consulates.

What is different about Benghaiz is that the Republicans are taking a tragedy and bashing Hillary with it in order to lower her numbers and weaken her for 2016. The New York Post has suddenly discovered 'five scandals' in the State Department when she was Secretary of State.

Does anyone else find it interesting that the State Department is filled with scandal and no other cabinet agency has been attacked so vigorously?

Maybe such non-stop outrageous attacks are working. Hillary's favorability rating has dropped and in the swing state of Colorado the recent Quinnipiac Poll has her losing to Chris Christie by 44% to 41%!

New Jersey Taxpayers $24 Million Donation To Christie

 

 

 

If voters of New Jersey listen to the saturation ads being run on television for the re-election of Governor Christie, voters would think believe he is the most fiscally responsible person ever to hold that office. Cutting programs for the disabled, rejecting increases in benefits for the poor and denying New Jersey voter reforms were all done in the name of fiscal responsibility.

Oh wait, but those policies don't include his own re-election effort. The Governor just made a decision that is nothing more than a huge $24 million (according to New York Times) contribution to the New Jersey Republican Party and his re-election. He proclaimed that it was essential to hold the election to replace the deceased Senator Lautenberg two weeks before the general election to ensure good government.

The reality is that the Governor is spending that money so popular Newark Mayor Cory Booker will not be on the same ballot in November as the Governor. The Governor wants to elect a bunch of right wing Republicans to the legislature and wants his coat tails to be long and unquestioned. After all, turning the legislature will help his Presidential race.

Also, by the way, if the Republicans take back the all or one of the two houses in the New Jersey legislature it is the end of marriage equality in the state in the near future.

That $24 million of having two elections is the entire cost of what it would take to establish early voting for the state of New Jersey. Which is the greater reform - a long lasting policy of making voting easier for the people of New Jersey or a one time hit to make life easier for the Governor? Also, when funds are so urgently needed along the Jersey shore, how can he justify such an expenditure.

The New York Times wrote on its Editorial Page:

Governor Christie’s assurances on Tuesday that his decision to hold a special election a mere three weeks before the general election is all about giving voters a “choice and a voice” sounded utterly hollow. The only reason to have a separate Senate election is to make certain that no well-known Democrat — very likely Mayor Cory Booker of Newark — will be on the November ballot, possibly luring to the polls more Democrats and minorities, who might also vote for Mr. Christie’s lesser known Democratic opponent, Barbara Buono, a state senator from Middlesex County.

The special primary and election will cost New Jersey’s battered state budget about $24 million. The governor, who has highlighted his budget-cutting image in this campaign, scoffed at putting a price tag on such worries. He explained that “we’re not going to be penny-wise and pound-foolish” when it comes to this Senate seat. New Jersey voters would do well to suggest that he remember that phrase the next time he rejects a minimum-wage increase or tax break for low-income residents.

By insisting that the taxpayers publicly finance just his campaign with this shady and unnecessary maneuver, Governor Christie has dealt a serious blow to his own credibility. Isn't he the one opposed to public financing of campaigns? He hardly can stand up anymore and proclaim his fiscal responsibility.

Shame on him