Blood Flows Uphill For Hillary

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  1. Flanders

    Flanders Well-Known Member

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    Barack Taqiyya picked the right lady to take over at HHS. Sylvia Mathews Burwell should be right at home sifting through Kathleen Sebelius’ garbage:

    One wonders if Barack Taqiyya chose Burwell for no other reason than to dredge up Hillary Clinton’s various scandals:

    The truth does not matter in cases like Vince Foster. The official verdict will always exonerate the guilty when they are high enough in government. That’s why I always said accusing the Clintons of murdering Foster did them a favor. Without proof the charge of murder is quickly relegated to the realm of conspiracy theory; whereas, suicide always ends up in the realms of speculation and interpretation for decades after the event. In short: Clinton detractors get much more milage out of a suicide verdict.

    Incidentally, there is not a chance then-Attorney General Janet Reno would have nailed the Clintons for Foster’s demise. In that regard her ethics were no better than Eric Holder’s are today. In fact, the two were pals. Three months before Foster’s death (July 20, 1993) Holder said he comforted a weeping Reno after the massacre in the Branch Davidian Compound (April 19, 1993). Realistically speaking, what the hell was one dead guy to the people in the Clinton Administration compared to more than 80 murdered men, women, and children?

    By most accounts Vince Foster was a man of conscience:


    It’s difficult to imagine a real life Atticus Finch committing suicide. So I certainly cannot see Foster doing it for this reason:

    At the time the “distraught” story was put about, I wondered why nobody ever said Foster was so distraught over the Branch Davidian slaughter he took his own life.

    Interestingly, the Branch Davidian Massacre also fits the murder scenario. Was Foster murdered because he was going to name names?


    All of the facts that surfaced after Foster’s body was discovered made me forever doubt the intelligence of independent counsels:

    The thing that fascinated me the most about the crime scene was how Hillary made blood run uphill?

    After Sebelius, Vince Foster’s trash lady
    Nominee also veteran of Bill Gates' abortion push
    Published: 21 hours ago
    AARON KLEIN

    President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services is a former Bill Clinton deputy chief of staff who was once in the news for picking through Vince Foster’s classified office trash bin.

    Foster was Clinton’s deputy White House counsel and a law partner of Hillary Clinton. His 1993 suicide was the subject of much speculation and three official investigations.

    A 1995 Senate committee investigating the so-called Whitewater affair also probed Foster’s death. Whitewater refers to the Clintons’ controversial real estate investments, including investments into the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture.trash bin

    Investigations by the U.S. Park Police, the Department of Justice, the FBI, Congress, Independent Counsel Robert B. Fiske and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr concluded Foster’s death was a suicide. However, as WND reported in 2003, one of Starr’s key investigators challenged the official line, insisting the probe’s result was predetermined, only a few plotters were required to engineer the result, the crime scene was altered and that major newspaper editors killed stories by reporters pursuing the truth.

    Yesterday, Obama introduced Sylvia Mathews Burwell, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, as his nominee to replace Kathleen Sebelius as HHS secretary.

    Burwell was founding president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She also served as president of the Walmart Foundation, where she led the company’s Global Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative, which focused on economic opportunity efforts in Africa. She graduated from Harvard and Oxford Universities and was a Rhodes Scholar.

    Overlooked in the news media profiles of Burwell was her role in the Foster affair, particularly her possibly instrumental in disposing of the contents of Foster’s classified office trash can.

    In 1993, Burwell, who then went only by her unmarried last name of Mathews, was an assistant to Clinton’s domestic policy adviser.

    The night of Foster’s suicide, Burwell reportedly “inventoried Foster’s trash,” claiming in testimony two years later that she was, according to a Los Angeles Times description, “looking, in vain, for some clue to why he killed himself.”

    At issue was what she may have found in Foster’s classified trash bin. She claimed to the Senate committee investigating the Whitewater affair that nothing in the trash shed light on Foster’s death or his state of mind at the time of his suicide.

    Another issue was that Burwell reportedly also retrieved what the New York Times described at the time as a “special bag of garbage containing classified and sensitive papers that was usually destroyed by the Secret Service.”

    The bag’s contents were reportedly never examined by anyone else.

    Burwell told the Senate committee she obtained the classified trash bag from the Secret Service and started looking though it until she realized that “it contained all of the classified garbage from the West Wing,” the Times reported.

    Upon that realization, Burwell said she sought the opinion of Clinton’s top attorney, Bernard W. Nussbaum, who told her Foster did not have a classified trash bin and that she should return the bag to Secret Service for disposal since it could not have contained any of Foster’s trash.

    However, it later emerged that Foster had a special classified garbage bin in his office and the bag – which was reportedly destroyed – may have contained Foster’s classified trash.

    http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/after-sebelius-vince-fosters-trash-lady/
     
  2. Flanders

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    I just learned that Sylvia Mathews Burwell is:

    This next bit is high doublespeak:

    The only “management acumen” somebody from Harvard will bring to HHS is how to baloney the public à la Kathleen Sebelius.

    More importantly, whoever heads HHS inherits the job of Chief Baby Butcher. Before and after HillaryCare II is repealed the Secretary of HHS’ first duty is to protect funding for Planned Parenthood. Socialists in the government will have to swallow repealing the ACA because too many rank & file Democrats oppose it, but they will never accept defunding Planned Parenthood. Mentioning Planned Parenthood is sure to trigger all of the “War on Women” rhetoric.

    The trick for Republicans is to corner Burwell into admitting that a true separation of tax dollar funded abortions and the rest of Planned Parenthood’s services is essential. After all, the infanticide scam is in the bookkeeping. Separating the “services” provided by Planned Parenthood should be a cakewalk for someone with “. . . a background in economic policy. . .”.

    And did you notice that the first act in the confirmation process began three seconds after Burwell was nominated:


    Don’t get me wrong on this. Confirm Burwell by all means, but nail her down with precise answers to real tough questions. For starters, getting her on the record as supporting “clinics” like Kermit Gosnell’s butcher shop through Planned Parenthood can be used to show what she really is after the inevitable lies start flowing from the mouth of another compassionate Democrat.

    NOTE: Getting an obvious partisan hack on the record should have been done with Elena Kagan. It wasn’t, even though everybody knew she was put on the Supreme Court to vote for the ACA.

    Incidentally, Republicans cannot stop Burwell’s confirmation. That does not mean they have to vote for her. Not voting to confirm will pay huge dividends later on just as it is paying off with the ACA. Doing the right thing always pays well. Right off the bat veterans will blame Democrats for giving her the job.


    HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigns
    By: John Hayward
    4/11/2014 08:41 AM

    The overseer of the biggest, most expensive disaster in the history of Big Government disasters is finally going to resign… only to be replaced by the Obama henchwoman who kicked war veterans out of their memorials during Shutdown Theater. You didn’t think this Administration was going to get any better, did you?

    The official storyline on the resignation of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is that she felt her work was done, and knowing that she would always be a lightning rod for criticism, so she thought it was time for a change. From the New York Times - which, it should be noted, is not shy about beginning its account by referring to the ObamaCare rollout as a “disaster”:

    Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, is resigning, ending a stormy five-year tenure marred by the disastrous rollout of President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act.

    Mr. Obama accepted Ms. Sebelius’s resignation this week, and on Friday morning, he will nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace her, officials said.

    The departure comes as the Obama administration tries to move beyond its early stumbles in carrying out the law, convince a still-skeptical public of its lasting benefits, and help Democratic incumbents, who face blistering attack ads after supporting the legislation, survive the midterm elections this fall.

    Officials said Ms. Sebelius, 65, made the decision to resign and was not forced out. But the frustration at the White House over her performance had become increasingly clear, as administration aides worried that the crippling problems at HealthCare.gov, the website set up to enroll Americans in insurance exchanges, would result in lasting damage to the president’s legacy.

    Even last week, as Mr. Obama triumphantly announced that enrollments in the exchanges had exceeded seven million, she did not appear next to him for the news conference in the Rose Garden.

    The president is hoping that Ms. Burwell, 48, a Harvard- and Oxford-educated West Virginia native with a background in economic policy, will bring an intense focus and management acumen to the department. The budget office, which she has overseen since April of last year, is deeply involved in developing and carrying out health care policy.

    “The president wants to make sure we have a proven manager and relentless implementer in the job over there, which is why he is going to nominate Sylvia,” said Denis R. McDonough, the White House chief of staff.

    Last month, Ms. Sebelius approached Mr. Obama and began a series of conversations about her future, Mr. McDonough said. The secretary told the president that the March 31 deadline for sign-ups under the health care law — and rising enrollment numbers — provided an opportunity for change, and that he would be best served by someone who was not the target of so much political ire, Mr. McDonough said.

    “What was clear is that she thought that it was time to transition the leadership to somebody else,” he said. “She’s made clear in other comments publicly that she recognizes that she takes a lot of the incoming. She does hope — all of us hope — that we can get beyond the partisan sniping.”

    So even as Administration-friendly an outlet as the New York Times admits this is a political maneuver designed to minimize Democrat blood loss during their midterm election beating. Which is interesting, because one would think Sebelius was already “priced in” to whatever happens next. She stood her post during those amazing hearings where we learned she, and Barack Obama, did virtually nothing to supervise the biggest government computer project in history, letting countless billions of dollars fly out the door to shifty contractors. She toured the country to attend ObamaCare launch events in which the system almost invariably blew up in her face, making her America’s new cultural icon of sheer incompetence. She lied endlessly about the performance of the Affordable Care Act – right up to sitting by as the Administration touted April 1 enrollment numbers she quietly admitted, in a single media interview, that she knew were not accurate.

    Throughout it all, the Administration refused to ask her to step aside, because they worry more about their image than either the confidence of the American people, or the performance of Big Government programs. Nobody gets fired under the Obama regime, because he thinks such terminations would be seen as an admission of fault, and the God-King does not have faults. He trusts friendly media to bury the bad stories quickly and keep the news cycle rolling; where previous Administrations tended to think it was best to get out in front of bad news and swiftly hold someone accountable for disasters, Obama has always understood that if the media supports you, the bad news slips past more quickly if you spin your way through one news cycle at a time.

    That seemed to have pretty much worked with Sebelius… so why is she getting the heave-ho now? As usual with this opaque Administration, even its friends are left to guess what goes on behind the heavy curtains and locked doors, so the Times hypothesizes it might be the weight of accumulated hard feelings toward Sebelius, perhaps even from the President himself. There were doubtless some rather lively meetings held in private at the White House while the ObamaCare disaster unfolded, and the thin-skinned Barack Obama cannot have enjoyed giving those embarrassing damage-control press conferences instead of taking the victory laps he anticipated. Sebelius was kept on board precisely as long as necessary to make it possible for her departure to be spun the way it’s being spun today.

    To give you an idea of how ridiculous that “mission accomplished” spin really is, Sebelius gave an interview not two weeks ago in which she vowed she would “absolutely” remain at her job through the November elections. Either she was lying in this interview – right into the face of a reporter from the liberal Huffington Post! – or she was being reasonably honest then, and the White House spinmeisters are lying now.

    Either is possible, given the level of sheer dishonesty everyone involved brings to the table, but Sebelius is a veteran politician who could easily have found ways to politely deflect the HuffPo reporter’s question without dropping a dopey “I’m in!” sound bite she knew would come back to haunt her in a couple of weeks. Then again, it has always struck some observers as odd that Sebelius wasn’t brought front and center to receive congratulations from the President during his April 1 press conference. (Why not, if she was merely having polite conversations with the President about how she thought it might be time for her to move along? It seems highly unlikely that she was sacked in a surprise decision made last night, but the narrative about a graceful exit with appreciation for a job well-done is tough to square with events of the past few weeks.)

    What reasons beyond the usual White House behind-the-scenes soap opera might there be for seeing Sebelius off now? It will help the regime and its allies put the launch disaster behind them; the Left-media is already treating the last three months of 2013 as if they happened centuries ago. There are going to be plenty of Republican ads in this election cycle that remind the public of just how badly bungled that launch was. Now, at least, they can’t conclude with “… and Kathleen Sebelius is still there!” That counts for something in politics. Getting rid of Sebelius now lets Obama reap the political benefits of refusing to fire her when it would have been seen as an admission of failure, while minimizing the price he pays for keeping her around beyond the point where it was painfully obvious she needed to accept responsibility and resign.

    The true ObamaCare enrollment numbers will come to light soon, and it’s going to be significantly less than the 7.1 million number Obama touted on April Fool’s Day. I suspect they’ll keep things vague until the day when they can make a more solid, well-documented claim that they’ve reached 7 million enrollments, at which point they’ll shrug and say it doesn’t matter they were a bit off on April 1, and the media will shrug with them.

    We’ll also start seeing the long-suppressed demographic breakdowns, too: how many enrollees are Young Invincibles lining up to get fleeced, how many lacked insurance before ObamaCare went into effect. The Administration always assumed it would be able to finesse these revelations, and it knows the media won’t ask any hard questions about why they previously disseminated information they knew was inaccurate. Sebelius was the face of all the obfuscations and lies; she’s the one who claimed HHS didn’t know anything, except when it was politically expedient for her to pop up and deliver some bizarrely precise number to squeak through a news cycle. Getting her out of the picture will make it easier to push the coming clarifications to page A26 of the newspapers and keep them off the evening news. Time and distance will ease the pain of discovering that one or two million of the “enrollments” claimed on April 1 were unpaid, invalid purchases or stray online shopping cart data. If worst come to worst, the Administration can now blame anything they can’t spin away on the long-departed Kathleen Sebelius.

    And there’s the bad news yet to come, all of which can now be finessed by claiming that a new, better, more effective captain stands at the helm of Health and Human Services. Sylvia Matthews Burwell doesn’t have much in the way of health care experience, but that doesn’t matter, because this isn’t about health care anymore, to the extent it ever was. It’s now about fear, obedience, and control. If that isn’t clear enough already, it will become more obvious as ObamaCare enrollees are taken hostage to ensure the law can’t be repealed, more of its Byzantine laws go into effect, and Americans learn they don’t get to ignore the law, the way Barack Obama does. The woman who shut down the government to keep ObamaCare alive is a splendid choice to take over as its enforcer.

    Update: In the most pitch-perfect conclusion to the Sebelius saga that could be imagined, the woman who dumped millions of PAGE NOT FOUND errors upon the American people found that a page of her resignation speech was missing. Twitchy curates the ensuing hilarity on Twitter, including a few of my jokes. To those who think the magnitude of this Administration’s incompetence should not be trivialized with jokes, I say: we paid a lot of money for this clown show, and by God, we’re entitled to a few laughs.

    http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/burwell-should-expect-tough-questions-easy-confirmation/?dcz=
     
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    The Affordable Care Act and the Titanic makes a pretty good analogy:

    Instead of going down with the ship I see Burwell telling the corpse “There’s nothing wrong with you.” just as the undertaker is closing the lid on the casket.

    Meet Sylvia Burwell, The Titanic’s New Captain
    She’ll have a tough time keeping Obamacare afloat.
    By David Catron – 4.14.14

    The replacement of Kathleen Sebelius by Sylvia Mathews Burwell as the Secretary of Health and Human Services has been portrayed by the legacy “news” media as a new lease on life for Obamacare. The party line is that Sebelius was mortally wounded by GOP exploitation of a single uncharacteristic mistake — the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov — while Burwell is a brilliant Beltway veteran unsullied by controversy and possessing the very administrative skills needed to save Obama’s “signature domestic achievement.” As the Los Angeles Times put it, “Advisors to the president say he is putting his best organizational player into the position.”

    In other words, politically motivated Republicans have hounded Sebelius out of office only to see her replaced by their worst nightmare, “a highly efficient manager capable of keeping the Obamacare trains running on time.” This tale fails to conform to the facts, however. First, Sebelius’s mismanagement of the health law’s implementation went far beyond her Healthcare.gov debacle. In addition to that blunder, for example, she has undergone serious scrutiny pursuant to her legally dubious solicitation of cash from corporations to fund the implementation of Obamacare. And, as for Burwell, she is far less efficient than she is being depicted and is by no means uncontroversial.

    The establishment media have made much of Burwell’s long career in government, pointing out that it goes back to the 1990s when she served under President Clinton in various capacities, including Deputy Chief of Staff. None of these reports, however, mentions the most bizarre feature of her tenure in that administration. On the night that White House Counsel Vince Foster committed suicide during one of the myriad scandals that defined the Clinton presidency, Burwell (then Sylvia Mathews) rummaged through the dead man’s garbage, presumably to make sure that it contained no documents implicating the President or Mrs. Clinton, one of Foster’s law partners.

    In a story about the Senate investigation of Foster’s suicide, the New York Times reported that some members of the committee “found it significant” that Mathews had “managed to retrieve a special bag of garbage containing classified and sensitive papers that was usually destroyed by the Secret Service.” It seems passing strange that this episode fails to get a mention in any of the major media outlets that have been cranking out paeans to Burwell. A typical example is ABC’s article, “9 Things You Might Not Know About HHS Nominee Sylvia Burwell,” which contains not a syllable about it. It’s a safe bet, however, that many voters “might not know” about this creepy story.

    The ABC story does tell us that Burwell is “really smart.” It should have said, “willing to do anything the boss asks.” NBC News, in a story that somehow slipped past the editors, reports the following: “A single person shut down the entire U.S. government.… Not a congressman, but an unelected woman named Sylvia Burwell who … sent the email that initiated the process that has closed national parks.” This eventually led to the refusal by park rangers to allow WWII veterans into their own memorial, a travesty that clearly demonstrated how the White House was deliberately inflicting as much pain as possible on the public in order to gain political points.

    This willingness to inflict pain on the public inevitably brings us to Obamacare, and the contribution Burwell will make in cleaning up the mess. Because she is currently the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, presumably Burwell can manage basic arithmetic. Thus, it shouldn’t take long for her to figure out that the “Affordable Care Act” is anything but affordable. But we have also seen that, if asked to do so by her masters, she is willing to go through a dead man’s garbage and shut the public out of parks paid for by their own tax dollars. So, can we really expect Burwell to impose some sanity to the implementation Obamacare in her capacity of HHS Secretary?

    The obvious answer to that question is, NO! This is why even the MSM has faced the fact that Burwell will have a very tough confirmation hearing in the Senate. John McCain’s premature endorsement notwithstanding, most observers expect the Republicans to press her very hard on a variety of issues relating to Obamacare. Yesterday morning, Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina told Fox News that the GOP will want to know about Burwell’s priorities as HHS Secretary: “The question is will the next secretary put the interests of Americans first, or the policies of the president.… We’re going to keep the focus on the American people, not politics.”

    Unfortunately, the Democrats have changed the rules of the Senate so that Burwell’s nomination can be confirmed by a simple majority. The Democrat majority can give her the job without a single Republican vote. This means that, unless she pledges to impose euthanasia on anyone over 70 or throw babies into a bonfire to propitiate Baal, she will be our next Secretary of Health and Human Services. The good news is that she isn’t as corrupt as Kathleen Sebelius, who was without a doubt the most lawless HHS secretary the nation has ever endured. The bad news is that Burwell is a classic “I was just following orders” bureaucrat. She will do as she’s told.

    And Obama isn’t going to tell her to do the right thing. He knows that he’ll be remembered for little else than being our first African-American President and for signing the “Affordable Care Act” into law. Thus, he’ll order her to make sure his legacy isn’t tarnished by the collapse of the latter. To accomplish that, she will have to implement all the provisions of Obamacare that the President has delayed until after the upcoming midterm elections. This includes the go-live date for the employer mandate. She will also have to deal with Supreme Court rulings that could well cripple the law, including whether the IRS can subsidize plans bought through federal exchanges.

    And these items constitute only the tip of the iceberg into which Commissar Sebelius has steered the President’s “signature domestic achievement.” The vessel is taking on water at an alarming rate, and Sylvia Burwell’s obvious euphoria at being nominated to run HHS will soon devolve into handwringing about the number of lifeboats there are compared to the number of people whose careers are riding on this rapidly sinking vessel. Secretary Burwell may discover that she is destined to go down with the ship.

    http://spectator.org/articles/58722/meet-sylvia-burwell-titanic’s-new-captain
     
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    Foster lived in DC for all of six months. To my knowledge he lived in Arkansas his entire life prior to Washington. As we can see, Fort Marcy Park is much further away than two parks very close to the WH. Woodley Park is also closer and easier to get to. Jogging my memory, Vince may have had a map in his car and that may be the only evidence he'd heard of Fort Marcy. Meridian Hill Park looks like the most direct route to killing yourself after eating a burger and drinking a coke.

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