Give Hillary her wish

Hillary Rodham Clinton compares life in the White House to life in prison.

Asked by political scientist Tyra Banks this week if she ever got lonely during her eight years as first lady, Hillary responded: "I don't feel lonely. But I do feel isolated. Because when you are in these positions that I have been in, it can be very isolating. It is one of the reasons I put on the dark glasses and the baseball cap and go out of the White House. President Harry Truman once said that the White House was like the crown jewel of the American penal system because you feel so confined."

Nevertheless, Hillary is working furiously to break back in.

I have a suggestion. Let's grant her wish.

No, I don't mean elect her to the presidency. I mean let's incarcerate her – for a long, long time.

I admit it: I'd love to see her frog marched right into the penitentiary.

I know it's a pipedream, but, if there were real justice in the world, this would be her fate: "Hillary Rodham Clinton, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided to you."

Why isn't someone from the FBI reading Hillary her Miranda rights?

How many times do we have to witness her blatantly commit election fraud with donors who wind up behind bars while she derives all the benefit?

First there was the Peter Paul case. The Hollywood fundraiser charges Hillary has continued to file false reports – a total of four – in an attempt to distance herself from him after a Washington Post story days after the August 2000 fundraiser reported his past felony convictions. Clinton then returned a check for $2,000, insisting it was the only money she had taken from Paul. Clinton, Paul asserts, continues to hide from the public false statements about his contributions and her relationship with him, made to the Post through her spokesman Howard Wolfson. Clinton vowed publicly she would not take any more money from Paul, but one month later, she demanded another $100,000, to be hidden in a state committee using untraceable securities.

In May 2005, Sen. Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen, was acquitted for filing false campaign reports that later were charged by the FEC to treasurer Andrew Grossman, who accepted responsibility in the conciliation agreement. Paul points out the Rosen trial established his contention that he personally gave more than $1.2 million to Clinton's campaign for the fundraiser and that his contributions intentionally were hidden from the public and the FEC.

The case is the subject of a video documentary largely comprised of intimate "home movies" of Hillary Clinton and her Hollywood supporters captured by Paul during the period.

Then there was the case of Norman Hsu. He, too, is a convicted felon and was a fugitive from justice for 15 years when Hillary accepted cash from him – at least $100,000.

Hillary isn't commenting, but her attorney, Howard Wolfson, explained: "Norman Hsu is a longtime and generous supporter of the Democratic Party and its candidates, including Sen. Clinton. During Mr. Hsu's many years of active participation in the political process, there has been no question about his integrity or his commitment to playing by the rules, and we have absolutely no reason to call his contributions into question or return them."

What? He's a convicted felon. As such, he doesn't even have a right to participate in the American political process. And by fraternizing and dealing with him, aren't Hillary and her attorney aiding and abetting a known fugitive?

Where's the FBI when we need it?

But it gets worse – much worse!

Not only did Hsu give lots of ill-gotten gains to Hillary and other Democratic politicians. He also arranged for major contributions from ordinary citizens who couldn't possibly afford to make them on their own.

Take the Paw family of Daly City, Calif. William Paw is a mail carrier. His wife is a homemaker. They live in a small house near the San Francisco airport. The seven adults in the family, who never made a political contribution before 2004, managed somehow to give $213,000 to Democratic candidates since. That includes $55,000 to Hillary.

Curiously, the Paws' modest home was once listed as Hsu's California residence.

Whatever happened to the old adage that it takes two to tango?

Why is it in American politics that only the guy illegally offering the money goes to jail and not the politician who accepts it?

Let's give Hillary her wish. Indeed, isolate her from the general populace. But not in the White House – in the Big House.

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