a dog-eared town

And it’s a joke for many different reasons. The first one is that it utterly attempts to ignore reality. That sort of thing tends to end badly. So here’s the reality on the ground.

Real estate executive Jack Rosen has given Sen. Hillary Clinton $8,800 since last November, nearly double the amount individuals can donate to any single presidential candidate this election.

He is able to do so because of a loophole in political fundraising laws - one that is allowing several presidential candidates to simultaneously collect donations for their presidential bid and other political entities connected to them.

I find that amusing. It’s like the story of the kid trying to plug a dike. Not going to happen.

Clinton quietly filed papers with the Federal Election Commission over the Thanksgiving holiday that declared her to be a candidate for Senate re-election in 2012, even as she runs for president. That allowed her to raise money for both campaign accounts.

Scores of donors took advantage late last year and early this year, allowing Clinton to collect a quarter-million dollars from people who gave to both her 2012 Senate and 2008 presidential committees, the Post analysis found.

Nice.

Let’s face it, she will have no competition in her senate race if she loses the presidency. So she’s just gonna bank that cash and spend it on good will. And I don’t blame her. She’s just using the system.

The system as it is created, sucks and it is no wonder people are exploiting loopholes. That’s what happens when you allow so many lawyers to create things. They create loopholes. It is what they are paid to do.

I just wish the bright bulbs in DC would stop trampling on my rights. Cause this one is pretty easy to read.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I don’t know how the Supreme Court can misinterpret “Congress shall make no law”. But there you go.