At least in my eyes. Fred Thompson doesn’t go to church regularly, and isn’t afraid to say so.

I’ve nothing against church goers in general, or even church-going politicians, but I’d much rather have one who doesn’t wear his religion on his sleeve. Particularly compared to hypocrites like Bill and Hillary Clinton, who primarily went as a photo op, Bible in hand, usually when trying to tamp down a scandal.

Hillary has Sandy Berger as one of her policy advisers. I’m less disturbed by this than the fact that so many won’t find it disturbing. Will he play a role in another Clinton administration? If so, is this payoff for covering up whatever he covered up for them?

[Update mid morning]

Captain Ed has more information about where Hsu got his money. She hasn’t even been elected yet, and we already have a huge scandal. I feel like I’ve gone back to the nineties in a time machine. Except I think that, this time, the scandals will get a lot more, and better coverage.

Miss the rampant corruption of the Clinton years? Have no fear–it will be back if Hillary! is elected. Look forward to more sleepovers for campaign cash in the Lincoln bedroom.

Before the announcement, new evidence surfaced that the Clinton camp had dismissed allegations about Hsu made by a Southern California businessman. In an e-mail obtained by The Times, a Clinton campaign staffer told a California Democratic Party official in June that the businessman’s concerns were unwarranted.

“I can tell you with 100 certainty that Norman Hsu is NOT involved in a ponzi scheme,” wrote Samantha Wolf, who was a campaign finance director for the Western states.”He is COMPLETELY legit.”

In fact, Hsu was a fugitive wanted on a 15-year-old bench warrant stemming from an early 1990s investment fraud case.

And for all the talk about competence and cronyism of Bush appointees, apparently people forget that Hillary hired a former bar bouncer as head of White House security, though she denied it, instead blaming it on the dead guy (of which there were too many in the Clinton administration).

In interviews, the first lady has denied any involvement with Livingstone’s hire, and Nussbaum testified under oath to House investigators on June 26 that he was not involved. Just who hired Livingstone was not quickly established, although White House officials eventually said late White House attorney Vincent Foster brought him in.

But I guess we’re not supposed to point out things like that. Only “Clinton haters” would do such a thing. Wonder if Hsu almost became another dead guy who could tell no tales? And what was he really running from?

I think that we need a new benchmark for this failed Democrat Congress. They need to get their microphones working, or we should set a timetable to pull the pork out of their districts.

Some thoughts from Eric Scheie:

I was immediately reminded of the unresolved Peter Paul case, but if we think back further, there’s Johnny Huang, Charlie Trie, Moktar Riaddy. The Craig scandal is pathetically simple, even sad by comparison, does not involve the presidential election, nor money corruption, and probably wouldn’t be much of a scandal if it involved the Democrats. That the public perception would be that “both parties have scandals” shows only how easily manipulated the public can be.

…I think the Hsu case is bigger than Vick and Craig combined. It has a creepy, tip-of-the-iceberg feel to it, and it’s a perfect reminder (as if anyone needed a reminder) of the deep, hard-core corruption which has long characterized Bill and Hillary Clinton. (I don’t believe they have changed at all.) What sickens me more than seeing this corruption resurface is to see so many naive people behaving as if they’re shocked and surprised. (And what will sicken me more than that, I’m sure, is the speed at which they’ll forget.)

Yes. That people still don’t understand the depth of corruption of the Clintons is a failure–no–a criminal unwillingness to inform the public, or even an ongoing effort to deliberately misinform them–by the press in the nineties. It was journalistic malpractice.

And it continues, as long as they remain Democrats, and Bill maintains his (always unnoticeable to me) charisma level. Who has been reporting on the upcoming Peter Paul trial? Very few.

And Eric implicitly offers a challenge to the poetically gifted among us–come up with new lyrics for “Runaround Sue.”

At least for me. He seems to be interested in, and understand technology.

David Bernstein makes some good points, but I think the real question is not, why should Larry Craig resign, but why shouldn’t most of the Senate? Of course, I’ve been asking that question for years.

American is gone, but Hillary! (and Bill) will bring it back. Can’t wait.

[Update a minute later]

I loved this comment:

Maybe she means the American people will get their silverware back.

If the global warming evangelists had the slightest sense of irony, they’d never even attempt things like this. They have no concept of what laughing stocks they make of themselves.

I would ask him to forgive me for taking great pleasure in this. Guess that’s what schadenfreude is all about.