HILLARY CLINTON FOUND! – AT 7:09 P.M. ET:  Hillary Clinton, whose face was about to be put on organic milk cartons, has been found.

She showed up at the State Department today to speak out on Iran and Yemen.  The New York Times reports her profound comments:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration remains open to negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program, despite intransigence from Tehran.

That will really inspire the democracy demonstrators in Tehran.  It must be fun for Hillary to be working for Jimmah Carter.

Clinton said the administration is consulting with other nations about new sanctions, but she stressed that this does not mean the administration is abandoning its effort to start a dialogue with Iran.

There is no hard-and-fast deadline for Iran to respond, she said.

That is disgraceful.  A deadline of December 31st had been set.  Is she now telling us it was all a joke?

''We've avoided using the term `deadline' ourselves,'' she said. ''That's not a term we have used because we want to keep the door to dialogue open. But we've also made it clear we can't continue to wait and we cannot continue to stand by when the Iranians themselves talk about increasing their production of highly enriched uranium'' and taking other steps toward possible production of nuclear weapons.

It's pretty clear that we can't get China and Russia to agree to meaningful sanctions.  We have wasted a year.  Iran has not wasted a year.

''I can't appropriately comment on the details of those discussions now, except to say that our goal is to pressure the Iranian government, particularly the Revolutionary Guard elements, without contributing to the suffering of the ordinary Iraqis, who deserve better than what they currently are receiving.''

Iraqis?  I believe the discussion was about Iran.

''We are deeply disturbed by the mounting signs of ruthless repression that they are exercising against those who assemble and express viewpoints that are at variance with what the leadership of Iran wants to hear,'' Clinton said.

Take that, mullahs!  I'm sure they're deeply disturbed because we're deeply disturbed.

This is no way to begin the new year.  Apparently, the boss of bosses, just returning from a happy Hawaiian vacation, is going back to his old ways.

January 4, 2009