emergency spending.
Hillary Umbridge Clinton got stomped in NC, and barely scraped out another Pyrrhic victory in Hoosier Land. The nomination has moved almost entirely out of reach for her, so what does she do?
She donates another $6.4 million of her own money to the Clinton Campaign.
The lust for power is strong in this one. Six point four million bucks, for a new set of lances to keep charging at windmills. And she has the balls to call other people “elitist”?
How many school lunches could you have bought with that? How many midnight basketball programs, soup kitchens, and college scholarships could you have financed? How many health care premiums, food vouchers, or heating bills could you have paid for the poor, downtrodden folk you’re trying to bribe into voting for you?
I don’t begrudge anyone their fortune, and I don’t claim the right to tell anyone where, when, and how to spend their own money, but damn. If your platform involves harping on the selfishness of the wealthy, and threatening the extortion of money from my pocket to pay for the ailments of the less fortunate, you had better lead the way by example.
May 7, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I figure she’s spending this cash for mailings (printer, paper supplier, etc.), phone banks (minimum wage for callers), TV and radio commercials (spread around to copy writers, voice persons, sound and video technicians, etc.). You might call this a redistribution of wealth or a form of trickle down economics.
May 7, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I don’t see how her victory in Indiana was Pyrrhic, I always thought it meant winning a battle that costs you the war, if she doesn’t win then she’s done for, so what should she do?
Anyway, I don’t see anything bad with her spending her own money on her campaign, politicians usually just beg others for it while selling out in the process. You would be right in criticizing her for not spending any of her money to fix the ills she wants to fix with the public trough but that criticism would be accurate of every politician I can think of.
May 7, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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May 7, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Yep. She kind of reminds me of Hitler. I’ll bet she has a copy of “Mein Kampf” under her pillow. What do you think?
Joe
May 7, 2008 at 8:57 pm
You nailed it. Its not about anything but the power. That and the cash they can make by having two slimy ex-presidents peddling influence.
May 7, 2008 at 10:06 pm
The old broad is all out of cash. She had her assets listed at around $11 million and if I am not mistaken she dumped in $5 million a while back. Part of the most recent “loan” was from Bill - about $500k. She is going to be broke and a loser. Now she really won’t divorce good ole Bill because he has the cash.
May 8, 2008 at 6:05 am
*sighs*
You know, this could have been a really cracking election year. Now it’s just kinda sad. I’ve got this queasy feeling that it’s going to be a shoo-in for Colonel Tigh, and mainly because Hills would rather embrace glorious defeat, and Obama’s ex-minister is just loving his fifteen minutes.
Which, to my mind, is exactly the sort of shite that the election for the biggest chair on the planet is not supposed to be about. Bad cess to it, anyway.
May 8, 2008 at 7:02 am
…you had better lead the way by example.
Damn straight!
May 8, 2008 at 8:42 am
I’m betting on a SERIOUS mental breakdown when she loses, and she will……….. but I don’t think McCain can beat Obama. By November, Wright’s 15 minutes will not only be up, but he will have been totally forgotten. John Q. Public can barely remember who won the last season of American Idol, and he cares DEEPLY about that, or did at the time. I see Obama winning in November, and America reliving the latter half of the 1970’s all over again. Only this time, we will have no bootstraps to pull our fat selves up by………. we sold those sturdy boots to some guy doing lawn care from South of the Rio Grande, so we could buy that lastpair of shiny new plastic flip flops from China…………
May 8, 2008 at 10:09 am
New Dictionary Word
Electile Dysfunction: the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year.
May 9, 2008 at 11:21 am
I can totally picture Hills flailing her arms and stamping her feet and screaming “I WANNA BE THE PRESIDENT!”