Lest We Forget

Under Pressure
A billionaire retired investor is forging plans to spend as much as $100 million during the 2014 election, seeking to pressure federal and state officials to enact climate change measures through a hard-edge campaign of attack ads against governors and lawmakers.

The donor, Tom Steyer, a Democrat who founded one of the world’s most successful hedge funds.... (New York Times, 2/18/2014)

Steyer has vowed to give up his private jet and his fleet of cars and travel the country in his Prius to spread his message. Just kidding!

(Will the climate change crowd embrace a rapacious 1%er hedge fund manager who plundered the country? Stay tuned.)


Born That Way
Americans who had not even been born when Bill Clinton first took the oath of office in 1993 will be eligible to vote two years from now. They need to know that Hillary Clinton has been more than Secretary of State.

Those voters need to know, for starters, that Mrs. Clinton once displayed incredible investment skills. In 1978 and 1979, when her husband was attorney general and then governor of Arkansas, she enlisted the help of a well-connected crony to invest $1,000 in the highly volatile and risky cattle futures market. Several months later, she walked away with $100,000 -- a 10,000-percent profit. (Byron York, Washingtonexaminer.com, 2/17/2014)

Great column by York which reminds us about Hillary scandals from the past. How could we have forgotten them?

If something Mitt Romney did in prep school when he was seventeen years old is fair game, then certain Hillary's actions as First Lady of Arkansas, FLOTUS, and SOS are in play.