Bubba speaking to Charlie Rose about Hillary’s collapse:

on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing’s happened to her when she got severely dehydrated, and she’s worked like a demon, as you know, as Secretary of State, as a senator, and in the year since

Great. Let’s give her the position to make really, really important time sensitive decisions.  What can go wrong.

“Madam President, troops and assets are in place but are vulnerable, you need to make the decision now. Do we go?  Madam President?”

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“It is tough to ask a guy to travel coach…”

So why should a political hack or flack get first class handling?  There mere statement of that line should tell us plenty about those that would spend other peoples’ money.  Seriously, what is the thinking that a public servant shouldn’t ride with the commoners who pay his salary simply because they are a political hack or flack? At what point, then, should we now start to equate such a Democrat as, oh say, a mere Kardashian or Jenner?  Emphasis mine:

Hillary Clinton supporter Julian Castro’s representative asked a public college to provide first-class travel for the Democrat to give a speech. Castro, the Obama administration’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who flirted with Clinton running-mate speculation, was mayor of San Antonio when he mopped up some speaking fees with the help of his representatives at the William Morris Agency.

So, let me get this straight – the purpose of a tax payer supported political hack is to graft more taxpayer supported money from a tax payer supported public college?  And live higher on the hog than said tax payers?

NTK Network obtained an email (page 29) from January 2014. Castro’s rep at William Morris sent the message to Ohio State University, where Castro pocketed $15,000 for a speech and another $2,000 for his plane ticket.

One part of the Political Class enriching another part of the Political Class.  I guess that’s now the purpose of our betters because: Hunger Games.

“It is tough to ask a guy to travel coach, can you handle a first class ticket?” Castro’s agent said to the taxpayer-funded college.

And they claim that business people are greedy?  Oh, from the email thread:

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Earlier this week I reported on how the Speaker of the NH House, Shawn Jasper, is using the House PAC to take sides in a Republican Primary. He is doing the same thing with his personal PAC.

A recent mailer into Hillsborough District 21 not only leaves out conservative incumbents in the primary it also implies that they do not fight for lower taxes by exclusion.

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Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe.
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They forget that in time of danger, in the face of the Enemy, they must trust and confide in each other, or perish.

They forget, in short, that there has ever been a category of human experience called the Enemy. And that, before 9/11, was what had happened to us. The very concept of the Enemy had been banished from our moral and political vocabulary. An enemy was just a friend we hadn’t done enough for — yet. Or perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, or an oversight on our part — something that we could correct. And this means that that our first task is that we must try to grasp what the concept of the Enemy really means.

The Enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the Enemy always hates us for a reason — it is his reason, and not ours.

I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating today.

And unlike Obama, I do believe the Enemy gets to have a vote on this.  It’s rather simple – a paraphrased adaptation of Cicero’s aphorism on politics:

We may not be interested in War, but be sure the the Enemy is at war with us.

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Only a government wonk (or one seeking even more power for an organization wishing it to be a supra-national government) could ever say this:

Suicide is a complex issue and therefore suicide prevention efforts require coordination and collaboration among multiple sectors of society, including the health sector and other sectors such as education, labour, agriculture, business, justice, law, defense, politics, and the media. These efforts must be comprehensive and integrated as no single approach alone can make an impact on an issue as complex as suicide.

Or one that has no clue.  As someone who has had to cope, mediate, mitigate, and deal the aftermath of family members who have made such an attempt (and knowing that there is no “fix”) (and being a political blogger), I can’t believe the absolute gall and stupidity of this statement.  This is typical of a Big-Government-can-do-everything self-important I-know-better-speak.

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