ROFL!!!! Los Angeles Times: "The Pond Is Getting Fished Out" Hillary Is Running Out of MONEY!

[amborin]

Hillary Clinton faces one problem she didn't...

illary Clinton’s campaign had planned for any number of troubles on her path toward the Democratic nomination; money was never supposed to be among them.

Now, at a critical point in the race, Clinton finds herself under financial stress. The Bernie Sanders money machine keeps churning, sweeping up millions of dollars more than the Clinton campaign has been able to find of late, positioning the democratic socialist from Vermont to compete in states where he was never expected to be a threat.

As Clinton’s network of fundraisers in cash-rich regions like Los Angeles and the Bay Area struggle to fill events where tickets typically cost $2,700 -- the maximum a donor can give in the primary -- Sanders is not holding any. His money comes almost entirely online, and keeps coming and coming, far faster and more steadily than small donations do on Clinton’s website.

Clinton’s rainmakers have grown anxious. She began the year with $10 million more in the bank than Sanders, but that cushion is disappearing fast

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-money-20160218-story.html

12 hours ago ... “The pond is getting fished out. Everyone is sending invitations to the same group of people. And those people have already given as much as ...

[trillion]

1. I would think she's running out of places to hide. Under every hole with that golpher is

a new link to dirty money or a lurking progressive scandal.

Today I found... She went on CNN 45 times to support the TPP, She shilled for Monsanto and the Clinton foundation (which is her and her husband) took large donations from them, She voted against gays on the Defense of Marriage act, Her Fracking and Keystone XL support likely does connect her to Koch lobbyists and I'm not halfway though the day. Every day is more dirt on her.

Sanders should have no problem going after her. I google him and he keeps being on the right side of the issues from the start.

[Ferd Berfel]

20. She went on CNN 45 times to support the TPP,...

And her supporters will argue all day long: BUT NOW SHE'S AGAINST IT?!!! AYFKM?




If she actually won, how long would it be before she triangulated around to signing it?

[SusanCalvin]

30. Oh, about a nanosecond....

https://m.

[Recursion]

34. Amazing Grace!!!

One of the greatest computer scientists in the field's history.

[6chars]

63. If she says she opposes the trade bill,

then she will do what she can to stop it.

[Ferd Berfel]

87. Bull SHit

[hifiguy]

40. You can't win Whack-A-Mole

and all the moles are popping out of their holes these days. Too bad, so sad.

[trillion]

62. Thank you!

Gophers!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Maddie has some very uncomfortable explaining to do. I mean it.

[reformist2]

45. Maddi, you better pony up that $1. Hillary needs it. She's not kidding!!

[TTUBatfan2008]

3. No wonder...

...she and her family are doing 30+ fundraisers this month.

[trillion]

5. And the DNC raised the bar on super pac donations for her, going against president Obamas ban, a few

weeks ago.

She has the biggest campaign - made up of more people than all the other campaigns together. She also has dedicated people to each sector of the population to get the vote from them, including by race.

[frylock]

26. The DNC is dissing Obama.

For shame.

[Hydra]

70. He may have quietly agreed to it

The WH is NOT pleased about the (increasing) possibility of a non-New Dem as the next President.

I think this is the DLC's Waterloo- they'll commit whatever they have left to try and win...and if they don't, it's all over for them.

[grasswire]

73. I think the WH is not pleased about the possibility that Sanders...

.....will be the president the Democratic base thought Obama was going to be.

[Hydra]

74. Sacred cow there

But I feel that's the real fear. The grand "legacy" in in jeopardy if there's another Hoover/FDR thing.

[grasswire]

79. ABSOLUTELY

A Sanders presidency would render a third way Obama presidency pale.

[hifiguy]

86. Whistle Ass will always be the Hoover

in that comparison. Obama kept the car from going over the cliff but now it's time to head in a new direction.

[pablo_marmol]

84. Bingo!

That's what I've been thinking as well.

[frylock]

76. It's a lose-lose situation either way.

Rig the election and alienate an entire generation of voters, or let it all play out and take their lumps.

[Hydra]

77. That's more or less how I see it

They're already irrelevant, but they refuse to give up the power they've stolen. They're still very dangerous, perhaps more dangerous than ever, though...but:

"Like the dinosaur...you've had your time."

[MisterP]

6. ironically they can't campaign because they're too busy making sure the campaign has money

"just like a house payment, student debt, or medical bill! I'm just like you little people!"

[TTUBatfan2008]

10. Yes, it reminds me...

...of what is happening to a lot of oil and gas companies with the low commodity prices. They took on a lot of debt from the banks when oil was $100+. They spent a lot of money to lease people and in some cases those leases force them to drill a certain number of wells no matter what.

So then they have to drill wells they really don't want to drill at $30 oil just to meet their lease obligations along with having to pay debt back to the banks. Meanwhile those wells can't turn a profit at $30 so the oil companies just keep losing more and more money on top of all the debt they already piled up in the first place.

[Fawke Em]

83. OT: But, a young Bernie Sanders looks a great deal like Buddy Holly.

[plus5mace]

4. Good thing the Superpacs have been unleashed.

[artislife]

7. "Awful timing" nt

[stopbush]

8. It really doesn't matter. HRC will pretty much have it locked up after Super Tuesday.

She won't need all that much money to finish out the primary season.

Once the general election funding starts, she has new sources to tap, and - IIRC - she can probably go back to donors as this is a new contest, just like Bernie is currently raising money for his presidential bid as a D and his next Independent run in Vermont.

[Fearless]

11. Good luck with this strategy.

[HooptieWagon]

14. It's wishfull thinking.

Bernie can go all the way to the convention. Hillary may run out of money before Super Tuesday.

[Fearless]

16. Just like last time.

[HooptieWagon]

22. Yep, her ego refused to admit she ran a flawed campaign.

She thought her campaign was fine, and just happened to run into a once in a lifetime opponant.

[MissDeeds]

33. She had eight years to plan for this campaign

and is screwing it up. Can you imagine if she was president and had to make timely decisions?

[SusanCalvin]

37. Ouch! nt

[hifiguy]

38. It's who she is. She has the common touch of Marie Antoinette

and the humility of Napoleon. And, it seems, the ethics of Richard Nixon.

[libdem4life]

47. Now that's a well rounded description. n/t

[hifiguy]

51. All original, too.

I often steal good remarks, but that is all mine.

[libdem4life]

54. ....

[MissDeeds]

49. Reminds me of Napoleon crowning himself

But Hillary doesn't have to do that, DWS is standing nearby waiting to do the "honors".

[hifiguy]

53. DUer EricJ in MN has this little gem in his sigline, speaking of that

Speaks for itself, methinks.

[MissDeeds]

55. Ah!! Thanks!

A picture truly is worth a thousand words!

[hifiguy]

58. The look of hopeful, vaguely bovine supplication on DWS' mug

calls to mind for some reason of one of the dimmer sort of courtiers one finds in a Terry Pratchett novel.

[MissDeeds]

60. OMG

"...bovine supplication." Best. Post. Ever.

[trillion]

65. Woah, nailed it!

[840high]

56. She's probably blaming her staff - most

certainly not herself.

[MissDeeds]

59. Yep

The buck should stop with her, but it's easier to blame the underlings.

[trillion]

66. There are rumors of a staff shake up coming with her campaign. They've been circling since

Feb 8th.

[TTUBatfan2008]

23. No worries...

...she'll just go into large amounts of debt just like last time. And just like last time, she'll expect the regular folks out there to pick up the debt bills for her. Last time it was Obama's supporters that bailed her out.

[frylock]

29. Bernie won't make it past 5% nationally.

[6chars]

68. I think this is the plan

you can go for the knockout or you can plan to drag it out.

without trying to get into a prediction fight, it seems almost certain she will win more delegates on Super Tuesday. With a lead in both elected delegates and super delegates, she may have so much momentum that any disparity in funds after that is immaterial.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

9. There is lots more where she gets hers

will they continue to bet on their falling star

[Hydra]

71. I don't think they want to

But it's really late in the game here- and if they have to go indy, if the party higher ups openly support someone outside the party...

[HooptieWagon]

12. I posted a couple weeks ago her campaign was short on funds.

She's going to have a hard time hanging in there until the convention. Shades of 2008. We can keep digging in to our pockets for Bernie.

Rumor mill loud that Jeb is nearly out of money too. Donors not willing to pony up given poor results to date.

[Politicalboi]

13. I think by now her name really is Illary

[cui bono]

18. haha...

But not in the gangsta sort of way...



.

[NCjack]

15. In the NV DEM primary, all Bernie has to do is place second or better and I'm

sending my usual donation to Bernie2016. I'm doubling it if Hillary says Bernie "can't win the GE" or what we want is "impossible". The Repugs and DINOs said that about FDR's campaign.

[bluedigger]

75. Second or better, eh?

It's always good to set achievable goals.

[cui bono]

17. Now I'm REALLY not kidding Maddi!!!

Poor thing.

.

[EdwardBernays]

19. If only

She believed in her campaign enough to invest some of her 10s of millions.

[SusanCalvin]

35. ^This^ nt

[mhatrw]

21. There are only so many big fish in Clinton's small top 0.1% pond. nt

[NorthCarolina]

24. If she is the presumed winner, shouldn't she have far more supporters donating to her campaign

than Bernie, the predicted loser?

What am I missing here?

[frylock]

25. Bernie supports sustainable campaign donations

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. Buying a government isn't cheap and used to be the province of Republicans.

Maybe she can liven up her gigs for the banksters and demand a higher payoff.

[Logical]

28. Maybe she can loan her campaign some money. nt

[lasttrip]

41. Good idea.

Peace.
LT

[geek tragedy]

32. Bernie will have to help her pay off her campaign debt

just like Obama did.

[SusanCalvin]

39. Probably so. And it will be worth it. nt

[hifiguy]

46. She won't be getting a job in the Sanders Administration,

that's for damn sure. She'll have more time to hang with her pals Blankfein and Kissinger.

[SusanCalvin]

61. Oh yeah.

I can't picture Bernie hiring Hill even to keep his enemies close.

[hifiguy]

69. Ambassador to Lower Slobbovia maybe.

Nothing more.

[That Guy 888]

78. I'm not familiar with Lower Slobbovia, but if it's too small, too poor or too dangerous for Bill...

then I'm ready to call her Madame Ambassador!

[hifiguy]

85. Right next to Pottsylvania,

home of Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale.

[grasswire]

80. I haven't heard Lower Slobbovia in years.

Going to have to google origin.

[SwampG8r]

48. Not a god damn dime

Obama suckered me into it before but this time if she runs up bills she knows she cant pay she can go see what her banker pals will give her .
A.dozen speeches should cover it

[hifiguy]

36. Meanwhile, the small-donor, grass-roots Sanders fund-raising apparatus

just goes into warp drive every time Herself attacks. And is a seemingly bottomless well as his contributors don't max out.

[SusanCalvin]

42. That would be me.

I'm well into the hundreds, but I'm nowhere near maxed out.

Oops, deleted dup. *Bad* computer.....!

[Generic Other]

44. I figured she didn't need my money

just like she doesn't need my vote, so I gave my contribution to Sanders. Oops.

[840high]

52. haha - there is a God.

[quantumjunkie]

57. K&R

[WillyT]

64. WOW !!!

[noretreatnosurrender]

67. How about this

Maybe she can sell some Hillary stuff on the Home Shopping network to raise cash? Or she could go to one of the Payday lenders that poor people have to use. That would be poetic justice.

[PonyUp]

82. Or this

?w=625

[amborin]

91. that's hilarious!

[olddots]

72. this calls for a Andrew Loyd Blubber musical road show

it'll be the hot ticket for the yuppy duppies

[PonyUp]

81. Damn you Maddie! Just damn you! nt

[arcane1]

88. She won't be able to buy this nomination. She has to EARN it n/t

[amborin]

89. working stiffs don't you want to donate to the $400 million candidate?

[amborin]

90. time for Hillary to get another Wall Street donation