Hillary was once party to the looting of a savings and loan. Now she has the gall to call mortgage lenders unscrupulous.

Kyle-Anner Shiver writes:

Hillary Clinton is now pitching her multi-billion dollar bailout plan for the “victims” of “unscrupulous” mortgage brokers who act “dishonestly and try to take advantage of people”.  And what will fix the problem of “unscrupulous” business people?  Why, more government bureaucracy and our money, of course.  It’s as if Madame Hillary thinks we taxpayers won’t mind one little bit just eating cake, while she gives away a billion here and another few billion there; after all it’s not her money. 

But Hillary Clinton is certainly in a position to know about “unscrupulous” business practices that end up costing taxpayers lots and lots of money.  After all, as Barbara Olson so nicely pointed out in her 1999 account of the prelude to Hillary Clinton’s political rise, Hell to Pay, Ms. Rodham was up to her armpits in “unscrupulous,” corporate wheeling and double-dealing long before she became First Lady.

Evidently, the entire Democratic Party, the Mainstream Media moguls, and every Harry, Dick and Jane American have collectively lost their memories.  We all need a refresher course, and quick.

The year is 1978.  Bill Clinton is Attorney General of the State of Arkansas.  Ms. Hillary Rodham (married to Bill Clinton, but still using her maiden name) has become an associate in the Rose Law Firm.

According to Carl Bernstein  (A Woman in Charge, page 128):

Rose was the ultimate establishment law firm, representing the most powerful economic interests in the state:  Tyson Foods, Stephens, Inc. (the state’s biggest brokerage firm), Wal Mart, Worthen Bank, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and the Hussman media empire in southwest Arkansas.  In the capital of a small state in which business was a matter of backslapping and backscratching, its primacy was undisputed.

Take it from a Southerner who knows: Ms. Rodham, married to the Arkansas Attorney General, was taking the shortest short-cut possible to scrapping her principles and lining her purse with gold.  Her association with this particular law firm ensured not only a nice income, but a backdoor route to insider deals, mountains of under-the-table perks, and the golden parachute that comes with on-the-ground-floor speculating - whether in land development or cattle futures.  She and Bill, as well as the Rose partners, knew it was a shady conflict-of-interest setup; they obviously didn’t care.