Dan Burton Rep. (R) Indiana. As Chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, Burton was turned loose on Clinton the same way that the Republican Party once turned Joe McCarthy loose on the nation’s Democratic Party—for the same reason, to achieve total control of both executive and legislative branches in Washington.
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/12/cov_22newsa4.html In 1995, he wrote Clinton, demanding to know whether taxpayers were footing the cost of stationery and postage for the fan club dedicated to Socks, the first cat. (They were not.)
In May, Burton released transcripts of former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell's prison conversations, but selectively edited out comments suggesting that the first lady was innocent of Whitewater charges.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/22/burton/ WASHINGTON (April 22) -- The chairman of the House committee investigating alleged Democratic fund-raising abuses is under fire for what his staff says was just "straight talk."
Last week Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) described President Bill Clinton as a "scumbag" during a session with the editorial board of the Indianapolis Star.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10480.html Burton handed out subpoenas like candy. He subpoenaed 141 different Clintonites. He held hearings — for 10 days — on the Clintons’ Christmas card list. In one instance, Burton was so reckless, he subpoenaed the wrong man (looking for someone with a similar name). In another instance, Burton fired a bullet into a “head-like object” — reportedly a melon — in his backyard to test the theory that former White House counsel Vincent Foster was murdered (this from the man who is now warning against “sensational disclosures”).
Burton did not stop, even after Clinton was out of office. From
Time June, 2001, Burton was still launching
new Clinton investigations, including Clinton’s pardons even though he had admitted publicly that he had no power under the law to investigate presidential pardons. Some people do not need an excuse to investigate the Clintons. For some people the fact that they are the Clintons is its own excuse to question everything they do.
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/lawandorder/article/0,9565,132243,00.htmlI can see why anyone would want to model themselves after Dan Burton. Yessiree, he sure made a fine name for himself back in the 1990s. Shooting watermelons is great sport.
Tim Griffin counsel on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, helped Rep. Dan Burton with his investigations of the Clintons before going to do oppo research for the RNC against Gore and Kerry and then becoming one of Rove’s political federal attorney appointees and would be working in Arkansas, indicting people at this very moment if not for the work of the Democratic Congress.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Arkansas_Senator_happy_to_see_top_0530.html Griffin worked as counsel on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee during the Clinton administration, as his boss, Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), issued over a thousand subpoenas to Clinton administration officials.
Or, to be more accurate
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10480.html The Government Reform Committee is the primary investigative committee in the House of Representatives. During the Clinton Administration, the chairman of this Committee unilaterally issued over 1,000 subpoenas to investigate allegations of misconduct involving the Clinton Administration and the Democratic Party. The Committee issued 1,089 subpoenas during the six years that Dan Burton served as chairman from 1997 through 2002. During this period, 1,052 of the Committee’s subpoenas - 97% - targeted officials of the Clinton Administration and the Democratic Party; only 11 subpoenas related to allegations of Republican abuses. (emphasis added)
That is a lot of subpoenas. I guess you can never be too careful when you are dealing with the Clintons. You can not leave a single stone---or tax return or donor list or appointment book--- unturned.
Barbara Comstock was Chief Investigator for Representative Dan Burton (R-Ind.) and later did oppo research for the RNC during the 2000 and 2004 campaigns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Comstock In his book Blinded by the Right, formerly conservative journalist David Brock discusses Comstock's Whitewater investigative efforts against the Clintons, characterized as "almost unhinged" by other critics.<6> Brock notes that Comstock would regularly make late-night telephone calls with "the latest tidbit she had dug up in the thousands and thousands of pages of administration records she pored through frantically," and visited Brock to "watch the rerun of a dreadfully dull Whitewater hearing she had sat through all day."<5> To Brooks, Comstock seemed "especially intent on proving that Hillary had lied about her role" in Travelgate.
Doesn’t everyone want to prove that Hillary is a liar? This is like the Holy Grail of politics.
Barbara Olsen Wife of Ted Olsen, conservative commentator, died on 9/11.
http://www.slate.com/id/1008074/ "Look at Bill Clinton's mother, as opposed to George W.'s mother. Is your mother a barfly who gets used by men? Or is your mother a strong woman who demanded respect for her ideas and always received it?"
Because the Clintons are the kind of people who make you just naturally want to put down their female relatives by implying that they are prostitutes, drunkards and sluts.
The Current Crop of Strategists http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/26/hillary/index1.htmlRead about how they plan to attack Hillary (if she is the nominee) for being
1)untruthful, 2)stealing the Democratic nomination from Obama with Superdelegates, and by 3) Bringing up the Clinton sleaze factor that Burton and friends worked so hard to fix in the public mind in the 1990s.
Hmmm. This strategy looks familiar. Seems like I have seen all these topics in the press for the last four weeks or so
and we are not even in the general election yet. What could that mean? Probably that the RNC is playing "early bird gets the worm." We know that Obama would never stoop to dirty tricks like this. Good thing that Obama supporters like the self styled political guru Keith Olbermann and his pals at Huffington Post are not handicapping Hillary for the general by doing the RNC’s work for them, isn’t it? Maybe in some sick attempt to make her unelectable in the general if they are smart (so that the Super delegates will not dare vote for her) or some dumb effort to make her unelectable in the primary if they are simply naive. I mean the way that they go on about how she handicapped Obama with her experience remarks you know that they would
never, ever say or do anything to weaken someone who still has a chance at the nomination. It would be unDemocratic. Downright Republican.
Oops, one more.
David Bossie "It's a science to know where to look, what to look for, and how to look for it," David Bossie told me recently. Bossie, who was forced off the Burton Committee for being too aggressive---
WTF? He doctored the Hubbell prison tapes. Sort of like some other things have been doctored, you know Hillary's
60 Minutes interview that was doctored so convincingly by Matt Drudge that professional news people fell for it or at least claimed they did. I noticed Tweety could not work up a convincing lie. He hates to look dumb. Matthews had to say that it looked phony.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200406/green ---now the president of the conservative organization Citizens United and an independent researcher, though no less committed to the cause. When I visited his Capitol Hill townhouse not long ago, he was surrounded by stacks of Kerry files, busily scrutinizing Kerry contributors' business dealings for a forthcoming book.
Kerry was clearly not Bossie's first choice of nominee. In his basement he proudly showed me dozens, perhaps hundreds, of boxes marked "HILLARY: WHITEWATER" or "HILLARY: TRAVELGATE." He called them the "Sierra Madre of Hillary oppo," regretfully adding that what could have been "ready to roll in twenty-four hours" will now have to wait until 2008.
Makes you wonder whom he is working for right now. McCain and the RNC I am guessing. We could make that a little more clear at DU by not cheering on his efforts.
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