Sipsey Street Irregulars: The Arkansas hound dog that hasn't barked . . . yet.

Monday, October 17, 2011

The Arkansas hound dog that hasn't barked . . . yet.

Official Portrait of William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President of the United States.

We have yet to hear any sage advice from Billy Jeff Clinton about the Gunwalker Scandal. This is somewhat strange to this observer, particularly since many of the major players -- his alleged wife, Eric Holder, Lanny Breuer, Janet Napolitano, Rahm Emanuel and others -- are, or were, Clintonistas who cut their eye teeth on Clinton-era scandal cover-ups.

Presumably we should have heard something by now if the Arkansas Rambler were disposed to risk his own political legacy to defend the political prospects of Hillary.

And yet, he hasn't.

Say what you will about Billy Jeff, his political instincts are unerring. And he certainly has been following the development of the scandal. No political junkie who knows most of the main participants personally would fail to do so.

If Mr. Bill is willing to let Hillary and the Obamanoids twist in the wind it is because either,

a. He's holding himself back for the desperate time that he's really needed, or,

b. He is content to watch the self-immolation of the participants from afar lest his own reputational coat get singed.

("Keep smiling . . . Maybe nobody will notice . . . Keep SMILING . . . At least NBC won't report it . . . Oh, Gaia it hurts! . . . Keep smiling.")

It does take a certain amount of courage over calculation to embrace someone whose hair is on fire.

And Clinton's memoirs should have been titled, Profiles in Calculation. This time, it seems -- at least for now -- calculation has once again won out over courage.

"Look, Hillary, why should I come to the rescue of you people? It won't work anyway, and I'll end up looking silly as hell. Besides, Obama's screw-ups make me look GOOD."

1 comment:

Chase said...: I don't get all the "Oh, Gaia!" comments on this blog. I AM a Neo-Pagan Earth-worshipper, and I can tell you, Obama isn't. (He is a damn liar though.); October 17, 2011 at 4:03 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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The Arkansas hound dog that hasn't barked . . . yet.

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