On 10-14-10, ROSS SAUER said to JEFF BINKLEY:


RS>And it's Barney Frank, using that "Bawney" like you and
your asshole crony
RS>Stan do, show just how juvenile you are.
RS>I could easily do likewise, with the machine breaking down, whining and
RS>clanking, that's been Hardlygreased.
RS>Not to mention Jeffy Binky.


Hey Otto........tell us about working on (then new) Sidewinder missiles.....


Foreign Money?
By R. Emmett Tyrrell (Archive) · Thursday, October 14, 2010


WASHINGTON -- OK, OK! It is only a satire. I am not really running for mayor
of Chicago, but I do have something in common with someone who is running for
mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. Neither I nor Rahm qualifies for residency in
Chicago, though my family traces its roots in the city back to the 19th
century, and I was at least born in Chicago. If Rahm bullies his way to
residency, Chicago's big shoulders are not what they once were. He gave no
thought to running until a few weeks back, when Mayor Richard M. Daley
announced his retirement, and now Rahm has no place to live.


Our second shared attribute is that the idea of campaigning is repellent to
both of us. I could no more stand at a bus station and shake hands than, well,
Rahm, and he is proving his disrelish for the glad hand on this "listening
tour."


People do not like him. They approach him as though he were an enemy alien,
and he is. He is from Washington, D.C. He wants to take their money. My guess
is that he will lose.


The only thing going for Rahm is that the election is next year. By then,
things might improve. On the other hand, they might get worse. Right now, they
are getting worse. Reasonable estimates are that the Republicans will win
between 48 and 52 seats in the Senate. In the House, they will gain between 50
and 70 seats. We are sitting on a volcano, and to think that a little more
than a year ago, all the talk was of Republican moribundity. There was a book
out, "The Death of Conservatism." Perhaps you heard of it. It was by Sam
Tanenhaus. He is the editor of The New York Times Book Review, so he cannot
very well go into hiding. But he can patrol his publication to be sure that no
book hinting at the truth gets into his pages. Thus, readers of the Review all
happily anticipate further ruin to the Republican Party this fall. What will
they do when it does not happen?


The scenario already is being written. They will claim that the electorate was
brainwashed by the press -- their press, mind you, but for some reason, it was
duped or made a mistake. Then, too, they will claim the huge Republican vote
was bought. The groundwork for this whopper already is being laid. In fact, it
is part of what passes for a last-gasp strategy to grab a seat here, a seat
there.


The loudest proponent of this desperate gambit is, of course, the president.
Barack Obama in Maryland last week warned that "groups that receive foreign
money are spending huge sums to influence American elections." Soon MoveOn.org
was calling for the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Chamber of
Commerce. Sen. Al Franken took up the charge that "foreign corporations are
indirectly spending significant sums to influence American elections through
third-party groups." It all fit in with calls for investigations from Sen. Max
Baucus, Rep. John Conyers, White House senior adviser David Axelrod and the
chief White House economist, Austan Goolsbee, who, in a conference call to
reporters in August, seemed to be aware of particulars in tax returns of the
principals at Koch Industries.


Now, actually, foreigners and possibly foreign governments have been known to
influence American elections. Yet I cannot recall them serving as friends of
the Republicans'. I remember them as friends of the Clintons', helping him win
the election of 1992 and coming out again in 1996. Foremost were Mochtar Riady
and his son James. I have chronicled their generosity and the generosity of
other shadowy Asians in my 2007 book, "The Clinton Crack-Up." In a chapter
aptly titled "The Chop Suey Connection," I chronicle how the
Riadys, a family
of ethnic Chinese from Indonesia, saved Bill Clinton's candidacy in the 1992
primaries with a loan of $3.5 million. Later James, by now a United States
citizen, contributed $450,000 to Clinton-Gore, and his family and associates
gave $600,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Then he and an associate,
John Huang, gave $100,000 each to the inaugural festivities.


In 1996, these colorful figures were back. Not only that, but so was Charlie
Trie, a man with no visible wealth who passed along hundreds of thousands of
dollars to the DNC and the president's legal defense fund. Allegedly, he got
the money from Ng Lap Seng, a trafficker in ladies of the night from Macau.

Then there was Johnny Chung, who arranged presidential photo ops for cash, one
beneficiary being Lt. Col. Liu Chaoying, who passed along $366,000 to the DNC.


Liu was the daughter of the most senior general in the People's Liberation
Army and was reputed to be a spy.


There were other foreign investors in American politics in the Clinton years,
and I cannot see any supporting Republicans today. Frankly, I think the
Democrats are lying to us.





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