Wonkette
Poor Hillary Clinton, who spends literally all of her time sending out spoofed Joe Biden emails begging donations for her massive campaign debt, has yet another financial indignity on her horizon: She’ll make $4,700 less per year than the current black Secretary of State, because that’s how Barack Obama’s America rolls.
Hillary will be the first white secretary of state since Madeline Albright left in January 2001. Our Mrs. Clinton is also the first American-born white woman secretary of state, ever! That’s historical.
It is also too bad that she served in the Senate when Congress approved a pay raise for Condi, because my god, those clothes don’t pay for themselves. This means sad Hillary will only get $186,600 annually, instead of Fancy Condi’s $191,300 salary.
True Constitutional-Law Detail: This is actually in the U.S. Constitution, the clause that says nobody serving in Congress can take a government appointment if the job in question got a salary increase during the congressperson’s current term. Crafty affirmative-action Founding Fathers are at it again, from beyond the grave! (It’s in Article 1, Section 6. We looked this up, for you!)
Secretary of State salary cut for Clinton [Associated Press]
Consider it a Bitter Tax.
OMG RACISM.
Of course her salary goes back up if she’s stil SecState after 2012, when her current Senate term ‘expires’.
Ron Paul did what now?
So, is this the socialist answer we feared? Jobs for everyone, but at less pay.
Equal pay for equal work! I hear Barack Obama uses the remaining paper copies of the Equal Rights Amendment as toilet paper! What say ye PUMAs to that?
Yeah, but she doesn’t have to shell out for piano lessons, so it all evens out. Oh, and she has a man.
That’s about 11 pairs of Salvatore Ferragmo shoes less!
Ooh, somebody order me a Hillary Clinton SecState commemorative plate, stat!
Also, Wonketteers, I just have to share that dbags from the American Spectator have started leaving snide comments on my sad little blog. I have so arrived! Whee!
Barry is just showing his pimp skills, he knows how to keep them in line.
“Is Barack Obama gonna have to choke a bitch?”
Why does that illustration make her look like a midgetized Albert Finney in drag?
Servo:
Heh.
I think Hils had to take a pay cut is because of all those unrelated 3am phone calls.
Correct me if I’m wrong. Is that not roughly the equivalent of the max campaign contribution of one President-elect and one First Lady-to-be?
obfuscator: Because it’s a damn good illustration.
She will have to go on welfare, and that’ll be embarrassing for everyone involved, especially the unfotunate grocery clerk who has to run her food stamp card after asking for her autograph.
A change I can believe - a white woman earning less than an angry black woman, doing the same job. Go Hopey!
I guess Hillary just fell back through the glass ceiling.
There’s something unamerican about her though. I think its her shifty eyes. Plus she knows known terrorist Obambi, who knows know terrorist Ayers and known anti-American Wright. This must be investigated.
Reparations.
Who put up that US Constitution site? The Smurfs?
HOW IS SHE SUPPOSED TO PAY THE DEBT INCURRED WHILE MEANINGLESSLY BEATING BARRY’S CHARACTER TO THE GROUND FOR A YEAR AND A HALF ON SUCH A MEASLY LITTLE SALARY?
Thank god. I was not looking forward to the spectacle of Hillary dropping in on the latest Broadway tribute musical review dolled out in Fendi boots. Back to the Strawberries catalogue for her.
Does this mean that Condi is more valuable than Hillz? You know, pay for performance kinda thing
Plus Barry says she will have to call him MISTER Tibbs.
shortsshortsshorts: Two Words. Rape Dollars.
StephanieInCA: Put a little comment there for ya. Yee-hah!
magic titty: Eep! No kidding. The fun bit though is this:
Today’s special event:
Indiana became a state on December 11, 1816. Commemorate the day by reading your Constitution.
Why do I have the feeling that they never have something along the lines of:
“On this date in 1848, the United States stole 55% of Mexico. Commemorate the day by getting blind drunk on mezcal and peeing on Chertoff’s cleaning lady.”
I heart me some wonderful Wonkette editors, but they use the word ‘literally’ too much, even in ref to Joe the Biden.
(gentle reminder from some polite Canadian dinos: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001207.html )
StephanieInCA: So what intelligent people came out of Bob Jones University? I will immediately go out and buy the book “God’s Harvard” that your commenter recommended- I understand it is one of the 3 books in the Bob Jones library(they have 6 books) without that pink slip pasted inside the front cover.
Maybe Palin can loan her some clothing or a offer a turkey sandwich if money gets tight.
StephanieInCA: Usually I prefer my snide comments to be much less tame. Maybe your snide commenters will get even better. Good luck, and Mahalo.
Jesus, the indignity. Now she’s going to have to shop at the Hermes factory outlet store like the rest of us.
StephanieInCA: I too, left a little Wonkette style love on your blog. Hugs n’ kisses!
(Also, I used a fake email address, ’cause you never know.)
user-of-owls: Because people actually would get drunk on mezcal and pee on Chertoff’s cleaning lady. There’s no way in hell anyone would actually read the Constitution.
magic titty: Gargamel did it to trick you. Smurfs are all good socialists in a paternalistic yet gay sorta way. Who needs your “Constitution” when we have Papa Smurf to tell us what’s right?
it’s the Hope tax!
http://www.charlietueats.com
magic titty: Probably not. Though it does seem to be the appropriate ritual for “commemorating” Indiana’s accession to the Union. Or commiserating.
As long as her hair approaches what’s on the illustration, Princess Sparkle Pony will still have a gig.
Neon Trotsky: Even toilet paper is clean on one side.
FreshCliches:
That head is for breaking through glass ceilings. Reminds me of the horns atop the Martin-Baker GRU-7 ejection seat to facilitate through-the-canopy ejection.
Short $4700/year…. It’s because she’s a woman.
“You needed that job, and you were the best qualified. But they had to pay you less than a minority because of a constitutional provision. Is that really fair?”
Whatever, no big deal. Men always get paid more than women.
villageatrois: It remains to be seen whether Hillary Clinton is a actually woman…Let’s not jump to conclusions here!
Memo to Hillz: Ur Blag-Wig has come unstuck.
You don’t go into the top pay tier until you get that MFA in Piano.
Reverse racism. I’ll get Hannity and Limbaugh on it stat.
Lascauxcaveman: You must not be on Hillary’s spam list. We “literally” do not know if the woman ever sleeps! DONATE.
Our Congressmen make $164,200.00 per year, I was thinking I can take $64,00.00 from each of them and bail out the BIG Oil Companies when they ask.
FreshCliches: Yes. While we only have one president at a time, we really have no SecState now. Hillary, America needs you, and Princess Sparkle Pony will chronicle your adventures. We’ll sell you the seat, but you’ll only need the edge.
That’s a damn lie!
The $4,700 is being deducted for the cost of moving her massive truck-nutz collection back to Washington DC.
It’s hoped that instead of willing it to Soho or Berkley or whatever her kids name is, she’ll donate it to the Nation, allowing the Smithsonian to open the “Museum of Natural Wonketry and truck nutz Emporium. ”
Also, it’s a little known fact but on January 20th 2009 at exactly midnight, in the Secretaries office @ Foggy Bottom, Hillary will get to give Condi a purple nerple. The full 60 seconds, no tools of any kind may be used (Bill was holding out for plyers).
That in itself is worth $4,700 in monopoly money.