Jack Cashill writes that barring the calamitous, former United States Senator from Tennessee Fred Thompson will be the next president of the United States.

In 1997, then Senator Thompson chaired a committee that investigated what he rightly called “the most corrupt political campaign in modern history.” Hillary’s fingerprints were all over that campaign.

Beginning early in 1995, the Clintons launched an unprecedented series of expensive, untruthful, arguably illegal TV ads. For cover, they laundered the campaign through the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

According to Clinton advisor Dick Morris, Hillary signed off on everything. The media, true to form, chose not to notice the ads or their financing. Here, the Thompson Committee report proves instructive:

“The president and his aides demeaned the offices of the president and vice president, took advantage of minority groups, pulled down all the barriers that would normally be in place to keep out illegal contributions, pressured policy makers, and left themselves open to strong suspicion that they were selling not only access to high-ranking officials, but policy as well. Millions of dollars were raised in illegal contributions, much of it from foreign sources.”

Johnny Chung, who admitted funneling $100,000 from the Chinese Military to the DNC, would tell the Thompson Committee, “The White House is like a subway: You have to put in coins to open the gates.”

What does this have to do with Clinton subsequently declaring the Utah Canyons a National Monument?

Plenty, as you’ll hear tonight at 9 pm EDT when author and investigative journalist Jack Cashill connects the conspiracy dots that lead straight from Utah to Indonesia, Johnny Huang, and James Riady.

It’s “A Conversation with Andrea Shea King and Jack Cashill”.  Get there from here:

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The Radio Patriot

This time it’s on campaign finance reform.

If I didn’t know better, I’d say America’s Mayor is simply telling the GOP nominating electorate exactly what it wants to hear (on everything OTHER than abortion).

How can the Western Left and Islamic Fundamentalists have so much in common?  Particularly when the latter is the embodiment of the smears the former hurl at Christian conservatives?

Ooops, sorry, just gave it away.  Ah, well, you know the old saying: haters of a feather flock together.

Elsewhere, the Roberts SCOTUS nibbled at the edges of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act when it should have bludgeoned it to death instead, and you could almost believe that Trent Lott is a master of reverse psychology if he didn’t make Boss Hogg look like a Rhodes Scholar.

The great sellout…..

the Senate got 64 for cloture.

“The Senate voted Tuesday to jump-start a stalled immigration measure to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants.

President Bush said the bill offered a “historic opportunity for Congress to act,” and appeared optimistic about its passage by week’s end.

The pivotal test-vote was 64-35 to revive the divisive legislation. It still faces formidable obstacles in the Senate, including bitter opposition by GOP conservatives and attempts by some waverers in both parties to revise its key elements.”

It’s important to remember that this isn’t the approval of the bill, but shuts down debate. That vote will happen later in the week. Additionally Brownback just killed his candidacy by a “Yea”.

By the way, the move at the House is “No way” unless a significant among of republicans come on board.

So it’s not over yet - close, but not over. Keep the calls coming!

TO: Sally Quinn, Washington Post

FROM: JASmius, Hard Starboard (C’mon, Sal, I’ve seen those hits from the Beltway, I know you’ve heard of me)

RE: The Great Cheney Switch

Don’t have a whole lot of time, so I’ll just toss this out there and see if it sticks.  How about Bush and Cheney switching jobs?  Free and clear?  Just like that?  You - oh, pardon me, “Republicans” - don’t want Big Time as veep anymore, and you - oh, I’m sorry, I meant to say YOU - want to get Dubya out of the Oval Office.  This kills two buzzards with one small meteorite.

Oh, yeah, I know, Cheney wouldn’t shove illegal immigration amnesty down the throats of his party’s base like Bush is, and his war policies would stop dithering and take the war to the mullahs like his boss should have four years ago (at least).  But think of the hunting mishap stories you can write!  You could reduce the Prince of Darkness to the reincarnation of Gerald Ford in a matter of weeks!  And, come on, admit it, wouldn’t you just love to see the Bush dynasty end the way it began - with the son marinating in the “bucket of warm spit” that his daddy served up twenty-eight years ago?

What’s that you say?  There are constitutional problems?  Well, heck, Sal, since when do dynamic movers & shakers like you and yours ever let that ancient piece of paper get in the way?  Besides, if you want Cheney out as veep, I doubt there’s any other Republican on the planet who has less to lose by succeeding him.  And you can’t tell me that you wouldn’t want to see George W. Bush go through confirmation hearings.  That’s got to be worth the price of admission alone.

The only other possibility would be for Cheney to leave and Bush just leaves the vice presidency vacant for his last year and a half.  Hey, John Tyler did it and nothing untoward transpired.  But if it did, well, you’d get your gal Crazy Nancy to keep the Big Chair warm for your other gal Hillary.

But even you wouldn’t really want something like THAT to happen.

Would you?

Since no Republican in their right mind would take the job, Quinn may be the only person in Washington who could advocate replacing Cheney and thus making her the prime candidate to join an Administration with a 27% approval rating pushing a wildly unpopular immigration bill, prosecuting a war becoming even unpalatable to leading Republicans and generally tearing the GOP apart.

And Fred Thompson as a replacement for The Dark Lord? Why should Thompson tie all of those millstones around his neck when he’s running away from Bush - as will most of the other candidates - just as fast as he can. It would be suicide.

I say if Quinn thinks Cheney should be replaced, she should offer herself as an alternative. That’s because, there will be no one else.