Tricky Hill

It has always struck me as odd, curious, even bizarre, that as teflon-coated and bullet-proof as the Clinton Machine has been ever since it eructated onto the national stage sixteen years ago, as much evil as they have publicly done and not only gotten away with it all scot-free, but even gained politically from it, that they have been so hyper-secretive to the point of paranoia.  To this day they're keeping literally millions of documents from the (first) Clinton administration under lock and key at the National Archives and the Clinton "presidential library".  Now what could possibly be in those documents that would instantly carbonize any ordinary politician but which would be any worse than what the Clintons have survived time and again in the past?

Well, the Right's sometimes-friends at Judicial Watch managed to obtain a nuclear-fusion-powered jaws-of-life-and-pneumatic-wrench set from Home Depot or something and succeeded in blasting loose 13,000 of those millions of documents, centering on Mrs. Clinton's notorious, Soviet-style "health care task force," and their contents amply substantiate that the term "Soviet-style" is anything but hyperbole:

Here are the highlights of the documents released by Judicial Watch.  Listen to this.  "A June 18, 1993 internal memorandum entitled, 'A Critique of Our Plan,' authored by someone with the initials 'P.S.,' makes the startling admission that critics of Hillary's health care reform plan were correct."  Now, this is somebody in the White House who has analyzed Hillary's plan and is offering a critique of it.  "I can think of parallels in wartime, but I have trouble coming up with a precedent in our peacetime history for such broad and centralized control over a sector of the economy. ... Is the public really ready for this? ... none of us knows whether we can make it work well or at all..."  This is somebody in the administration, a task force designed to analyze their own plan.

Remember the 1992 presidential campaign?  Remember how Bill Clinton had been the head of the Democrat Leadership Council, a "centrist" organization that believed the Democrat Party had to abandon left-wing extremism and move rightward if it was going to remain politically competitive at the national level?  Recall that at that time the Democrats had lost three consecutive presidential elections; this wasn't so much a case of a heretical insurrection in Donk circles as it was a recognition that the political landscape was no longer amenable to open, high-octane liberalism.  The Dems would have to adapt their "brand" to that now-"Reaganized" landscape.  And Bill Clinton, as the world found out, was the perfect vehicle for that new marketing strategy.

But, as the world also found out, Bill Clinton, and his overbearing, totalitarianistic wife, were not, nor ever, "centrists" at all.  They weren't even of the breed of liberals that had run the Democrat Party straight into the frakking ground over the preceeding twelve years.  They were outright, avid Marxists who fully had in mind to embark on a full-scale Sovietization of the American economy, and in great, big bites - starting with the health care sector.

There was, needless to say, a divergence between the commies they were and the moderates they had pretended to be to get elected.  "P.S.", who does not come across in this memo like he isn't on board with the master (or "mistress") plan, is simply asking a practical question: "Um, Comrade Rodham, this really isn't what we advertised during the campaign.  We talked about middle class tax cuts and 'putting people first' and now you're fixing to forcibly seize hospitals and doctors and pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies and literally people's lives and herd them all onto collective health care farms.  Don't you think that maybe some people might object to the biggest bait & switch since Andrew Jackson screwed the Indians?"

Now, lest you think that the "Clintonization" of the Democrat Party hadn't already gotten underway in the first days of 1993, get a load of the advice - extraneous, I assure you - that was offered to the Clinton White House by West Virginia Donk Senator Jay Rockefeller:

"A 'Confidential' May 26, 1993 Memorandum from Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to Hillary Clinton entitled, 'Health Care Reform Communications,' which criticizes the Task Force" -- Now, the task force is the group that said, "This is too big."  So Rockefeller, knowing of the memo in the White House, criticizes the task force "as a 'secret cabal of Washington policy "wonks"' that has engaged in 'choking off information' from the public regarding health care reform.  The memorandum suggests that Hillary Clinton 'use classic opposition research' to attack those who were excluded by the Clinton administration from Task Force deliberations and to 'expose lifestyles, tactics and motives of lobbyists' in order to deflect criticism.  Senator Rockefeller also suggested news organizations 'are anxious and willing to receive guidance [from the Clinton administration] on how to time and shape their [news] coverage,'" of the Hillary health care reform plan.

Do you get that?  Rockefeller, NeoBolshevik toady that he is, arrogantly assures Mrs. Clinton that "Of COURSE the American people want to be hearded onto health care collectives; they just don't know it yet.  Your task force has to 'educate' them about what they 'need,' and they'll realize that's what they voted for in the first place."  And anybody within the task force, or the wider administration, who tried to sound a warning that foisting a leftward lurch on a still-sovereign American public that was never sold this bill 'o goods might not be such a bright political idea (particularly alongside the other big swindle, the 1993 Clinton tax increase that replaced his promised "middle class tax cut") is to be, in public relations terms, taken to a ditch outside of town and shot in the back of the head four times, gangland execution style.

Did you also catch the amazingly candid view of the "proper" role of the mass media?  As de facto government propaganda outlets "anxious and willing" to receive "guidance" from the administration on how to spoonfeed this left-wing swindle to the public at large.

Of course, the Clintonoids didn't have to be encouraged down this Nixonian path.  It comes naturally to them.  Indeed, the term "Nixonian" is a euphemism:

Then there is "A February 5, 1993 Draft Memorandum from Alexis Herman and Mike Lux detailing the Office of Public Liaison's plan for the health care reform campaign.  The memorandum notes the development of an 'interest group data base' detailing whether or not organizations 'support(ed) us in the election.'  The database would also track personal information about interest group leaders, such as their home phone numbers, addresses, 'biographies, analysis of credibility in the media, and known relationships with Congresspeople.'"

This is far more than just "opposition research".  It borders on secret police tactics.  Or have we forgotten how the Clintons used the IRS and other regulatory agencies to harass political opponents and organizations which "didn't support them" (the NRA comes prominently to mind).  The Democrats were notorious for criminalizing politics and policy differences years before the Boris & Natasha of the Ozarks came along.  The latter simply professionalized it and raised to to a veritable art form.

And now they want back into the White House to finish what they started.

Concluded El Rushbo:

What we are treated to - and these are White House documents, by the way, that somehow Judicial Watch got, the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor -- what we are discovering is what many of us have long known/suspected that the Clinton, Inc., war room has no boundaries whatsoever and that they will use the full force and the power of the federal government against individuals who are not supporting what they want to do.  They'll do it by exposing lifestyles, threatening to do this, threatening to ruin them, harass them, find their phone numbers, their addresses, get their biographies.  Think 700 FBI files.

And put them in jail.  Think "political prisoners".

When I say that Hillary Clinton will take America down the same path Hugo Chavez has taken Venezuela, I'm not just venting.  It's only called the "Chavez path" because Hillary failed to achieve it first.

But it wasn't from lack of effort.

If she's given a second chance, I promise you, she won't make the same mistake - of even allowing opposition to exist at all.

UPDATE (1/21): As you had no reason not to expect, the Enemy Media has completely ignored these revelations into what we veteran Clintophobes already knew.  Raged Admiral Ed this morning:

Where are the media organizations that style themselves as the bulwark against governmental abuses of power? Why haven't they reported on these memos, which clearly delineate a type of attack on government opposition that hasn't been this baldly proposed since the Nixon Administration? Given Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency -- one on which she relies on her experience in her husband's administration for her qualifications -- isn't all of this terribly relevant to the question of how she will run the White House, and what kind of treatment her critics can expect to receive?

The silence from the Fourth Estate is deafening. It screams either cowardice or collaboration.

I was going to answer Ed's rhetorical questions a bit more "colorfully," but that will suffice.