Although she keeps denying the it, rumors are that Hillary Clinton will run for President in 2016.
While President Barack Obama is likely still celebrating his victory over Republican rival Mitt Romney, Twitter set its sites on a possible Hillary Clinton bid for the White House in 2016.
#Hillary2016 was trending across the world on Twitter early Wednesday morning just a few minutes after Mitt Romney delivered his concession speech, The Hill reported.
The Secretary of State is regularly asked whether she might consider another bid for the presidency. To date she has replied in the negative, saying that she is ready to retire from politics and even that she does not plan to stay on in her current position in Obama's second administration.
"I have been on this high wire of national and international politics and leadership for 20 years," she told Marie Claire last month. "It has been an absolutely extraordinary personal honor and experience. But I really want to just have my own time back. I want to just be my own person. I'm looking forward to that."
Clinton unsuccessfully ran against Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary.
Now that Obama has been reelected and is considered a "Lame Duck" President, thoughts are now going towards the 2016 election. And with the Senate in Democratic control there will be no resolution to the crimes from Fast and Furious and Benghazigate. Clinton just might not serve a moment of prison time for those murders.
No wonder Bill Clinton pressed the flesh for Obama. They hate each other, but Bill wants back in the White House very badly. (There are interns he hasn't gotten a blow job from yet.)
The first name has been thrown in. I wonder who is next?
We do not have adults running our nation. We have children who blame others for their mistakes, their infractions. It is the old "I didn't do it. It was someone else." I didn't allow or accept that from my children when they were young. And I will not accept this from an adult. Especially an adult who is suppose to the be the top lawman in the nation, Eric Holder.
The head of the U.S. Justice Department launched his strongest personal defense yet in the growing furor over Operation Fast and Furious, the controversial sting targeting Mexican drug cartels and American gunrunners.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said for the first time that not only he but also other higher-ups at the Justice Department were not aware of the operation as it was being carried out. Holder also suggested politics could be a driving force behind Republican lawmakers' forceful inquiries into the matter.
"The notion that somehow or other this thing reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that. ... I don't think is supported by the facts," Holder told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Washington. "It's kind of something I think certain members of Congress would like to see, the notion that somehow or other high-level people in the department were involved. As I said, I don't think that is going to be shown to be the case -- which doesn't mean that the mistakes were not serious."
A spokeswoman for the Republican leading a congressional investigation described Holder's comments as baseless "whining," and earlier Wednesday the House Republican himself said the issue is about more than who knew what, when.
"Whenever you talk about human mistakes, you have to say, 'What was in the system that allowed that human mistake to go on and perpetuate itself?'" Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Fox News Channel.
At issue is an Arizona operation launched in late 2009 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which planned to follow gun purchasers in hopes that suspects would lead investigators to the heads of Mexican cartels. But hundreds of high-powered rifles and other guns ended up in Mexico, and many now accuse ATF and the Justice Department of letting the guns "walk" even after safety concerns were raised.
Weapons linked to the program were used in a December attack along the Southwest Border that killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Months later, Issa launched his committee's investigation, as the Justice Department's inspector general also opened an inquiry, at Holder's direction.
"Our committee is the Government [Oversight and] Reform Committee," Issa said Wednesday. "We are about making sure that there is a system to prevent this in the future. When we have assurances that system is in place then our job is done."
But Holder seemed to question whether that is all Issa and other Republican critics are after.
"My hope would be that Congress will conduct an investigation that is factually based and not marred with politics," Holder said.
Holder has said repeatedly he was not aware of the operation as it was unfolding, and others have said no one at the Justice Department in Washington was informed of it, but Issa insists Holder at least "should have known."
"I believe it was his obligation to know, " Issa told Fox News in June. "The fact that there was a 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy in Eric Holder's office is to say really he wasn't doing his job."
Holder, however, noted he leads a massive department with all sorts of functions and obligations
"There are an awful lot of things that go on in the Justice Department," he said. "There's Operation Fast and Furious, [and] I'm sure there's Operation 'Fill In The Blank' going on right now that the people here in the department are not aware of."
Holder said he, as head of the department, has tried to "place in the field the responsibility and the discretion for enforcement activities," while setting "broad parameters here in the department" that he expects to be followed outside of Washington.
Holder has repeatedly denounced the tactics used in Operation Fast and Furious, calling the operation Wednesday a "flawed enforcement effort."
Recently, the man who headed ATF in the midst of it, Ken Melson, was reassigned, and U.S. attorney Dennis Burke, who oversaw the prosecution of cases coming out of the operation, abruptly resigned.
Nevertheless, at least three men have been charged in connection with the murder of agent Terry, though only one is in U.S. custody. And the Justice Department recently informed lawmakers that cases coming out of Operation Fast and Furious will now be led by prosecutors from outside Arizona.
This reminds me of Sgt. Schultz on Hogan's Heroes:
I think Sgt. Schultz did it better and it was definitely more believable.
I remember the Watergate Hearings and scandal. I remember it started with a 3rd rate burglary and ended up with the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Nixon and his cohorts cried they didn't know about it. Yet in the end the nation discovered the truth. Our President was a crook. And they will discover this truth again with Obama and his cronies.
