There’s the coolest buzz making the rounds in Washington’s power watering holes, and let’s cross every finger we have that it’s true.

To review the bidding, Hillary desperately wants to be POTUS. But if Hanoi John gets elected this November, he will obviously as the incumbent be the candidate in 2008. The earliest she could run would then be 2012, deep in her sixties and possibly ancient history. There is only one conclusion she can reach: Her only shot is to run in 2008 - which requires that George Bush be re-elected and John Kerry defeated in 2004.

You’re familiar with the term “October Surprise.” Right at the last moment, in late October, the parties try to pull a rabbit out of the media hat. The Dems sprung a decades-old DUI bust of GW a week before the election in 2000, the Pogo Press went into a feeding frenzy right on cue, and it almost submarined him on election day.

I wish Barbara Comstock running Oppo Research for the Republicans as much luck as it takes to figure out what dirty trick the Dems will try to spring this time. Yet while I’m sure they have an October Surprise planned - the buzz is that Hillary has one planned herself.

No one knows what it is - but we know four things about it.

I must admit that I remain in a state of total shock over November 6^th.  There is still a part of me that finds the results incomprehensible.  The actual results were within the margin of fraud, so the Dems stole it. 

At the Rendezvous, we had a world-expert on cyber-intelligence explain how "trivially easy" it is to hack into and rig voting machines.  Plus all the other voter-suppression tricks the Dems use in states with no Voter ID.

What Dems do is whatever it takes to win without any semblance of morals.  What Pubs do is blame each other, whine, and wimp out.  A perfect example is Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal on Monday (11/12) being a smart-ass ignorant jerk demanding IQ tests of Pub candidates.

He typifies the growing RINO chorus chanting the GOP must now capitulate on 1) abortion, 2) homosexual marriage, and 3) amnesty for illegals.  Why?  To get elected.  Power as an end in itself, not to politically accomplish something moral.  It is Stephens and his ilk who need to take an IQ test - as demonstrated by the evisceration of his argument for amnesty by Victor Davis Hansen on Tuesday (11/13).

Hansen's The Latino Vote Obsession is a masterpiece, simply a "must-read" this week.  Another masterpiece must-read is this interview with my dear friend Robert Agostinelli.  No one can tell it like it is like Robert.

Tea Party members are going to be very unhappy.

Many of the new members of the House and Senate that the Tea Party helped elect are already becoming part of the political class, as evidenced by their votes for continued farm subsidies, refusals to put reasonable limits on the growth of the food- stamp program, support for unaccountable international organizations, and on and on.

(To see how any Congressman is voting according to conservative principles, consider conservativevotingrecords.com, byThe Madison Project.)

Members of Congress vote for unjustified spending because they think the recipients will reward them with campaign contributions and praise while the majority of the electorate will never notice.  So how do we stymie the spendaholics -- when even Tea Party politicians are getting drunk on spending?

On July 26, The London Telegraph ran the absolutely positively most delicious story I have seen in many an al-ilah (the moon, worshipped by pre-Islamic Arabs, and contracted into allah by Mohammed).

You know that famous quote of Lenin’s epitomizing his contempt for capitalism? “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will fight among themselves to sell us the rope.” You wonder what Lenin would say to fellow Marxist Yasser Arafat.

It turns out that Palestinian businessmen with connections to Arafat and other officials in the “Palestinian Authority” are making millions of dollars selling cement to the Israeli Government to build the Security Wall. Is this too beautiful or what?

Coal, oil and natural gas are "fossil" fuels, right? They are derived from ancient life-forms and are nonrenewable, stored energy, extracted from prehistoric sunlight. In the case of coal and most oil, this is obviously true: You can find fossil tree trunks and leaves in coal seams and chemicals in oil that come from plankton.

But there's increasing doubt about whether all natural gas (which is 90% methane) comes from fermented fossil microbes. Some of it may be made by chemical processes deep within the earth. If so, the implications could be profound for the climate and energy debates.

It may be that we will never run out of natural gas.  There may be a literally inexhaustible supply of it.  Who needs "renewable" energy any more?

All devotees of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged know how the book ends: the apocalypse of socialism, symbolized by the electricity failing in Manhattan and the great city plunged into darkness, permits John Galt to begin the resurrection of freedom and capitalism.

Thus it was a very eerie experience to see the lead headline on Drudge one week before America's most fateful election (10/30) NYC GOES DARK, with a picture of the post-Sandy New York skyline black.

Mitt Romney is no John Galt (who is?), but he'll do for now.  And who could have guessed that the October Surprise we all were scared of turned out to be an Act of God on Romney's side? 

Of course, our hearts and prayers go out to all those suffering from the destruction of Sandy.  Yet the Zero/Democrat Ineptocracy has made that suffering worse - people eating of dumpsters, looting, gun and fist fights - then added insult to injury by racing off to campaign in Wisconsin after a phony photo-op with the fatso governor of New Jersey.

Zero's uncaring incompetence is on glaring display for every voter in America, and is a final nail in his electoral coffin next Tuesday.  Make no mistake:  Hurricane Sandy is a disaster for Zero.

The indictment of Enron chairman Kenneth Lay gives the Democrats a “windfall” according to the San Francisco Chronicle:

The indictment of former Enron chief Ken Lay represents an election year windfall for Democrats -- who say the man President Bush nicknamed "Kenny Boy'' is a poster boy for corporate greed and malfeasance. Lay's indictment Wednesday (July 7) in connection with the energy giant's 2001 bankruptcy hands Sen. John Kerry and the Democrats the perfect person to link the president's re-election campaign to the high-living corporate miscreants who left their companies, workers and stockholders in financial ruin, politicians and analysts said.

Beijing.  China's shadow banking system is out of control and under mounting stress as borrowers struggle to roll over short-term debts, Fitch Ratings has warned.

The agency said the scale of credit was so extreme that the country would find it very hard to grow its way out of the excesses as in past episodes, implying tougher times ahead.

In an interview with Charlene Chu, Fitch's senior director in Beijing, she explained to me:

"The credit-driven growth model is clearly falling apart. This could feed into a massive over-capacity problem, and potentially into a Japanese-style deflation. There is no transparency in the shadow banking system, and systemic risk is rising. We have no idea who the borrowers are, who the lenders are, and what the quality of assets is, and this undermines signaling." 

"There is no way they can grow out of their asset problems as they did in the past," she continued. "We think this will be very different from the banking crisis in the late 1990s. With credit at 200% of GDP, the numerator is growing twice as fast as the denominator. You can't grow out of that." 

We may be seeing the arrival of a "Minsky Moment" for China, when the debt pyramid collapses under its own weight.