Where is Hillary Clinton's backbone?

It's turned out to be a little different, as we saw last night on CNN. Let's title this one: "The old man can punch and the little lady has lots of vulnerabilities".

Silvio Canto, Jr.  "Did I miss something on the way to Mrs Clinton's coronation?

"A year ago, the Democrat nomination process was such a done deal that a couple of guys came in the arena just to keep it honest. Governor O'Malley was probably looking for some national exposure.  

"Senator Bernie Sanders wanted to push ideas that have not worked anywhere. And former Senator James Webb stuck his toe in to see how far a centrist Democrat could swim in waters full of leftist sharks." . . .

My guess is that most of those kids supporting in Senator Sanders don't really remember Clinton for anything except for that terrible incident with the intern.
Then there is Hillary. She has folded and cracked. She is afraid of the left.  

. . . "Then there is Hillary. She has folded and cracked. She is afraid of the left.  

"She won't defend her husband, even when he was right about NAFTA, talking back to those "Black Lives matters" mobs or discussing the crime bill of the 1990s endorsed by mayors and African American leaders and congressmen.

"Why didn't she look at Senator Sanders and say: "Yes, I voted for the war because I saw the evidence and came to the same conclusion that my husband, VP Gore, now Secretary Kerry, Minority Leader Reid, and so on. Yes, I felt that we had to think differently after 9-11."

"Show me some backbone. Show me that you can stand up to a bunch of people who believe that the answer to every world problem is gun control or calling everyone a racist." . . .

Monica Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’

"Nearly 20 years ago, Monica Lewinsky found herself at the heart of a political storm. Now she’s turned that dark time into a force for good."

The Guardian

. . . "She was bustled upstairs to a hotel room filled with prosecutors and federal agents. She started to cry. They told her they were investigating claims that President Clinton had sexually harassed a former Arkansas state employee, Paula Jones, and that if Lewinsky didn’t cooperate with them she’d be charged with perjury and jailed for 27 years." . . .

. . . "Lewinsky was once among the 20th century’s most humiliated people, ridiculed across the world. Now she’s a respected and perceptive anti-bullying advocate. She gives talks at Facebook, and at business conferences, on how to make the internet more compassionate. She helps out at anti-bullying organisations like Bystander Revolution, a site that offers video advice on what to do if you’re afraid to go to school, or if you’re a victim of cyberbullying."
. . .  

"And so she pitched an idea to Vodafone. Could she design a keyboard of anti-bullying gifs and emojis for them?

“ 'And now you can get them on all carriers,” she says. “Look. Let me show you…' ”. . . 

Rev. Wright / Bill Ayres' disciple behaves just as they felt he should with aggressive Russians

Hope n' Change
"A response will soon be coming from Air Force None."

Russia’s state media bragged about the incident   . . . "Everyone remembers that Turkey last year shot down a Russian jet under almost similar circumstances, and since then Russian jets no longer violate Turkey’s airspace." . . .

Again America is humiliated on the world stage because this president has shown himself to be a milquetoast leader, feared by no US enemy -only by Republicans. Which seems to be just fine with this generation of American voters. TD

Russia Flyover of U.S. Ship 'Kind of Things That Could Lead to an Accidental Shooting War'
. . . " 'Look, our Navy sailors have to defend themselves. And if at any point they feel that this poses a real threat, you may have a situation where we shoot a Russian plane out of the sky, and -- and you have an escalation," Kinzinger added. "This is very dangerous game Vladimir Putin is playing. He's trying to flex what relatively little muscle he really does have, and I think he's playing with fire.' " . . .

The global warming assault on free speech

"In fact, the ultimate goal of these legal worthies has little if anything to do with global warming or climate change. The goal is clearly to demonstrate that the government — any government — has the power to punish dissent and silence criticism, shut down objections and disagreement, and let the government get on, undisturbed, with whatever it wants to do."

Wesley Pruden

“ 'Climate change” is all about us. Nearly everybody believes in it. Who could not? Sometimes a sunny day changes to rain, sometimes snow changes to sleet. The wind blows on Tuesday but changes on Wednesday, from knocking down trees to barely putting a ripple on the surface of the lake. Mark Twain, noticing that some things lie beyond the meddling of man, observed that “everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.”

"Now someone has. The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands thinks he has found the way to silence, once and for all, the debate over global warming, or climate change, or whatever the radicals-that-be are calling the scheme this week. Global-warming jeremiahs are determined to intimidate, frighten and eventually fine or put in prison anyone who says the wrong thing about this best laid scheme of government. They’re determined to eliminate traditional sources of energy and replace them with politically correct but unreliable sources of energy, such as wind and solar power. That’s the beginning." . . .

Many Unhappy Returns

Hope n' Change

"Not everyone enjoys April 15th as much as Bernie does, which we presume is good news for the nation's dry cleaners. In fact, the day is hated by the approximately 50% of Americans who have to fork out money to go to the other 50% of Americans who pay nothing at all.

"But even though the IRS is collecting more revenue in fiscal 2016 than in any previous year, free-spending, class-envying Democrats say that it's not enough.

"For instance, Bernie Sanders recently bellowed that American corporations aren't paying their "fair share" and cited the flagrant example of tech giant Verizon, claiming "they haven't paid a nickel" in taxes. 

"And he's right. They haven't paid a nickel. They've paid $35 Billion in taxes in the last two years alone." . . .

Bernie again showcases his economic ignorance and disregard for data

“The senator’s uninformed views are, in a word, contemptible.”

Bookworm Room

 . . .."I just read the most ungodly economically ignorant article I have ever read. . . . It even beats out the $15 an hour minimum wage arguments, which at least are based on rational fantasy.  [Bookworm here:  Or maybe not so rational.*]

"Let me set this up:  Bernie goes to Brooklyn, where he rails against all of the evil businesses he means to destroy, starting with Verizon. Bernie claims that Verizon has paid nothing in taxes, and that it is time for Verizon to pay its “fair share.”  (I am starting to become violent every time I hear the word “fair” at this point.)" . . .

* Democrats have lost their minds over the minimum wage

. . . The left's minimum wage obsession dovetails with a shifting academic consensus that until the 1990s considered such hikes a recipe for killing jobs, especially for low-skilled workers. For a long time, the generally accepted rule of thumb was that, all else remaining equal, every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage would decrease low-skilled employment by 1 to 2 percent, since the more employers had to pay these employees, the fewer jobs they could afford to provide. . .

Putin eats Obama's lunch. Where is Hillary with her reset button?

Not like the Coyote vs. the Roadrunner; at least the coyote was in the fight.

Russia rejects criticism of fly-by near US Navy destroyer  . . . " Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian defense ministry, said Thursday that the pilots of Russian Su-24 jets saw the ship and turned back "while using all measures of precaution." Konashenkov said he was baffled by what he described as the "distressed reaction of our American counterparts.' "

Since last year, the Russian press has spoken of Obama's disrespect for Putin.

"All of this is due to Obama’s weak, pathetic foreign policy."

Putin’s Gun vs. Obama’s Pen   . . . "Putin is so confident in President Obama’s weakness that he gambles with the lives of U.S. military personnel without fear." . . .

We’ve come . . .  180 degrees from 2008, when President Bush deterred Russian escalation in Georgia by parking U.S. military transport planes at Tbilisi airport. Eight years later, as Putin continues to double down against Obama’s anti-realism, our adversaries, from Europe to Asia, are sensing the vacuum. We must face Putin down. This weekend, President Obama should suspend U.S. participation in the Geneva talks and immediately provide — rather than have aides anonymously discuss the possibility of providing — advanced weapons to rebels aligned with the Free Syrian Army. Doing so would confront Putin at his own game, and make it clear the U.S. understands that power is vested in action, not in words.

WH: Obama Not “Meddling” In Clinton Email Investigation By Saying She’s Innocent

"Not a smidgen of influence – you hear me Loretta?"
Merely a "security review"

https://earloftaint.com/

Branco Cartoon – Ready for Hillary

Who on earth would choose Hillary over any Republican?

Tony Branco at Legal Insurrection

AFTERBURNER: Bernie Sanders And The Politics Of Envy

"Bill Whittle paid a visit to a high school full of leftist Bernie Sanders fans, and after an hour he thinks he managed to give many of them at least something to think about."

The Hayride

"Bill Whittle paid a visit to a high school full of leftist Bernie Sanders fans, and after an hour he thinks he managed to give many of them at least something to think about.

"And mainly, the subject of that thought is envy – which is the renewable fuel socialism runs on."

"Jesus Lunches" — free lunch and talking about Jesus, in the city park next to the high school.

Althouse  . . . "A city park is a traditional speech forum where free-speech rights are at their strongest. And what's wrong with "incentivizing participation" with free food? It sounds like nothing more than objecting to the message. These are private citizens, not government employees, and they're speaking on a subject of their choice with their own point of view. That's plain old freedom of speech. You can't discriminate against it because the religious message is making some people uncomfortable or because you're reminded of things like prayer in the classroom that would present a problem under the Establishment Clause." . . .

TOLERANCE TURNED ON ITS HEAD

"Shoulda done it long ago."

American Spectator "Sexual lefties don’t have policy merits on their side. But they’re clearly winning the communications battle, using their usual tactics of distorting and demonizing reasonable, traditional positions on public policy, and simply assuming the moral high ground.

"Evidence for this is the considerable public opposition to religious freedom laws, such as those that have lately created kerfuffles in North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi. These laws do not, as the left cynically asserts, inconvenience gays or other of the left’s constituencies. But their absence does allow the left to do great damage to the First Amendment, and to traditional Christian believers with deep and sincere religious objections to parts of the left’s brave new sexual agenda." . . .

"But the sexual left doesn’t want to accommodate those whom they viscerally dislike. Sexual politics is flowing their way just now, and they wish to rub traditionalists’ noses in it. The animus against religious freedom laws in The Movement is not motivated by a desire for fairness and respect, but by plain meanness."

Emphasis added, TD