Gunpowder Chronicle posted on April 6, 2008 8:50 PM | Rating:
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is a congenital liar. Her recent actions have given us all the proof we need on the matter. First, she was caught in a huge lie by her compatriots at the Great Sauronic Eye -- CBS News -- that she landed under "sniper fire" at Tuzsla Air Base. If by "snipe" you are referring to the mythical bird of many a Boy Scout's hunt on their first camping trip, she might be telling the truth. But she wasn't.
Now, we know -- courtesy on "Pinch" Sulzberger's left-wing New York Times -- that a story that was a key part of her stump speech in Ohio was patently false. Clinton had claimed a woman died after her baby was still-born because a hospital refused treatment due to her inability to pay a $100 fee. Problem is: it wasn't true. And it couldn't be. Because of the Combined Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, which forbids any hospital that receives ANY public funds from the Federal Government from refusing to treat emergent payments.
And today, the other shoe dropped...
Chief Campaign Strategist Mark Penn -- who had been with the Clinton's as a pollster and consultant since Big Bill ran for re-election in 1996 -- has resigned from the campaign. Why? Because while the Congenital Liar was out attacking every foreign trade deal made in the last 20 years -- including NAFTA, which was one of the few signal achievements of her husband's Presidency that didn't involve an intern -- Mark Penn was meeting with Colombian officials on how to promote the Colombian Free Trade Act in Congress.
Penn strayed from the faith, and for that, he is now execommunicated. Or was he? I do not think it improbable that Her Royal Liarness is trying to play both sides against the middle, attempting to burnish her lefty credentials against an infinitely more left-wing candidate while preserving her ability to negotiate important, strategic, and crucial trade pacts with foreign nations.
The Colombia Free Trade Act is crucial to keeping Colombia as a strong ally, a firewall if you will, against the excesses of an increasingly hostile Venezuelan strongman, and a terrorist-harboring Ecuador. Not to mention, the act would allow Caterpillar, Inc. to export heavy construction equipment to Colombia -- all duty free. That's right. American products, made by American workers, in American cities and states. That means American jobs.
Certainly, Her Royal Liarness would not want to deny an American manufacturer the opportunity to export American products to foreign countries duty-free. And that is why I think the "firing" of Mark Penn is so much bull-dookey.