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Whatever you think of her, you’ve got to admit that Hillary’s got chutzpah. This article records some of that chutzpah.

In the address, her first major policy speech on the campaign trail, she proposed to sharply restrict no-bid government contracts and make the details of all government contracts available online, along with the budgets of government agencies. Clinton also called for extending the whistle-blower shield law to government employees.

I wonder if Sen. Clinton talked with Dianne Feinstein about the no-bid military contracts that her hubby was awarded?

Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problems were surfacing in the media, and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that Blum also holds large investments in companies that were selling medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases—often without the benefit of competitive bidding—to the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed on his wife’s watch.

Mrs. Clinton, does that mean that DiFi’s hubby is as unethical and evil as Halliburton? Mrs. Clinton, hasn’t DiFi acted in a highly unethical, and possibly illegal, fashion as chair of that subcommittee? For that matter, aren’t DiFi’s actions in this matter as unethical as anything that John Murtha ever done? I’d suggest that it’s possibly worse than anything Murtha’s done.

I’d love asking Sen. Clinton how “expanding the whistle-blower shield laws” will end government corruption? It seems to me that prosecuting CIA agents who leak things about intel-gathering programs would end alot of corruption. Expanding the whistle-blower laws won’t end corruption; it’ll codify into law much of the illegal activity that the CIA is currently engaged in.

Assailing the Bush administration for its handling of Hurricane Katrina, the controversy over the replacement of U.S. attorneys and fraudulent government contractors in Iraq, Clinton characterized it as having “a stunning record of cronyism and corruption, incompetence and deception.”

That’s the epitome of chutzpah, people. Hillary lecturing anyone on “cronyism and corruption” is akin to being lectured by Bonnie and Clyde about gun control.

Let’s take the subject of cronyism: Robert Ray’s report said that, although he couldn’t prosecute Hillary for what she did, he could prove that she didn’t always testify honestly about Travelgate:

For the first time, Mr. Ray disclosed parts of Mrs. Clinton’s 1995 deposition he now says are demonstrably false. The report also discloses some of the grand jury testimony of others who spoke to Mrs. Clinton about the travel office.

Here’s what lies at the heart of Travelgate:

The workers were replaced with people the Clintons knew.

In other words, this was cronyism of the highest magnitude. What this means is that Hillary wants to be perceived as ethical even though she’s a scandal machine. The bottom line on all this is that Hillary is the last person who should lecture anyone on these issues.

After all, she’s the poster child of cronyism and corruption.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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