CHICKEN DO DO CLINTON

CHICKEN DO DO CLINTON

A Clinton Re-do? This weekend, Hillary Clinton will give her first official campaign announcement speech. What has she been doing for the last two months? Avoiding, dodging and evading questions about the myriad of scandals in which she is involved. It's hard to imagine a more disastrous campaign rollout for a candidate who has, in one way or another, been running for president for a number of years. From her private email and server to her odd appearance at Chipotle on the campaign trail, Hillary has managed to skip from one poor headline to the next. It's finally taking its toll. I've told you about her latest poll numbers which show that she is rapidly losing favorability with voters. She is not trusted and she lacks charisma to motivate people to go to the polls. Meanwhile, other Democrats are slowing surging in the polls. Republican candidates are also within reach or outright beating her in certain polls on different factors. And it looks like not much will change over the next few months. Things just keep getting worse. Here are a few of the latest examples. From the Washington Free Beacon: “Multiple high-dollar donors to the Clinton Foundation are associated with the New York Times, including the Times’ top shareholder, Carlos Slim … Not only has Slim contributed between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation, but his company Telmex has contributed an additional grant between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 through its foundation. Slim has also pledged $100 million to the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, a collaboration between the Clinton Foundation and Canadian mining tycoon Frank Guistra.” One of the many controversies swirling around Clinton and the New York Times this week is whether or not the paper was essentially paid off for its endorsement of Hillary Clinton in 2008 over Barack Obama and John Edwards. The timing of things is in dispute, but stories like this show the fluid relationship between media and the Clintons. From the Daily Caller: “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s 'No Ceilings' women’s empowerment project at the Clinton Foundation accepted a $5 million commitment last December from a Swiss billionaire even as his lawyers were fighting in federal court to hide his darkest secret — a long record of sexually abusing women.” It's hard to paint oneself as a women's rights advocate when stories like this continue to make headlines. Also, consider all of the countries from which the Clinton Foundation has accepted money, which have deplorable women's rights records. From the Washington Examiner: “State Department Inspector General officials edited out passages of a high-profile report in 2013 that could have embarrassed Hillary Clinton just days before she quit President Obama's Cabinet. The officials excised details of a cover up of misconduct by Clinton's security team. The edits raise concerns that investigators were subjected to 'undue influence' from agency officials.” Hillary isn't exactly polling well on “trust,” and stories such as this fit the pattern of somebody constantly in cover-up mode. Number of Government Regulations Under Obama Has Exploded The number of government regulations has exploded under the Obama administration. The Environmental Protection Agency alone has issued 3,373 new regulations since Obama took office in January 2009. This equals 29,770 pages in the Federal Register and close to 30 million words. According to CNS News, “This means the new EPA regulations issued by the Obama Administration contain 23 times as many pages as the Bible and 46 times as many words.” Or by another comparison, 6,552 times as many words as the Constitution. It's no wonder that businesses are having a difficult time keeping track and paying to comply with the outrageous number of government regulations. Source: CNSNews