When Hillary is not pretending to be a moderate for the cameras, she's comfortable in her real skin as a firebreathing arch-liberal. She let rip during a fundraiser in Manhattan and her diatribe about blocking the Republican agenda makes it clear she doesn't understand that elections have consequences.

"We can't ever, ever give in to the Republican agenda," she declared. "It isn't good for New York and it isn't good for America."

Ahem, America disagrees, at least if you trust voters. But this attitude makes sense for people who believe that the majority that wins elections doesn't get to pass its agenda, especially when gullible and spineless members of the majority abet the opposition. Hillary's hysteria continues:

Left unchallenged, especially if Democrats fail to pick up seats in next year's Congressional elections, she said, Republican leaders could ram through extremist conservative judges, wreck Social Security and make unacceptable concessions to China, Saudi Arabia and other nations that are needed to finance the United States budget deficit.

As we've noted before, Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen won a far greater proportion of California's and Texas' votes, respectively, than Hillary did in New York, so it's manifestly absurd to call them extremists. As for Social Security, the deteriorating demographics that structurally undergird the program are so inherently weak that it will wreck itself just fine without anyone's help. And with regard to unacceptable concessions, when Bill Clinton sent the hapless Jimmy Carter to North Korea to negotiate an end to its nuclear weapons program, America was promptly taken to the cleaners - so, Hillary, we'll take this Clintonian comment about concessions with an appropriately large grain of salt, thank you very much.

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