What a Wimp!!

Hillary's bold defense of her husband:

Senator Hillary Clinton has spoken up in support of her husband Bill’s defense of his anti-terror efforts, saying she’s tired of Democrats being pushed around on national security issues.

"I just think that my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take this,” she said on Monday in remarks reported by Newsday.

Take what, for heaven's sake?? A relevant question? Bill Clinton is so used to being handled with kid gloves that he can't take it when he actually has to answer for something he did - or didn't do - during his presidency. What a weenie.

JASmius adds: According to Dick Morris (who was on Hannity & Combs last night as I was channel-surfing), Mr. Bill's outburst caught Hillary by surprise. This would make sense, since it's obvious that the {*ahem*} unpresidential blowup on live television couldn't possibly have been scripted if Hillary didn't take the opportunity to triangulate off of it, as I speculated she would. Her deer-in-the-headlights response tells me that she was being as involuntarily "real" as he was, to the detriment of both.

Yesterday in The Hill, Morris wrote that the real Bill Clinton - "the angry, sarcastic, snarling, self-righteous, bombastic bully, roused to a fever pitch" - emerged on Sunday, at long last, for the entire world to see. If so - and I have no doubt that it is - it really speaks to the desperately unwise choice that voters twice made in the '90s, and about which we in the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" [tm] repeatedly warned. That such a man had control of the nuclear command codes and police powers for eight years without getting more than three thousand-plus of us killed seems like a miracle.

Morris closed his column thusly:

One also has to wonder when the volcanic rage beneath the surface of this would-be statesman will cool. When will the chip on his shoulder finally disappear? When will he feel sufficiently secure in his own legacy and his own skin not to boil over repeatedly in private and occasionally even in public?

Never. His narcissism will never allow him to admit his dereliction. He's never been held to account for anything in his entire misbegotten life. He rose to a two-term presidency by being the real-life Gingerbread Man, a scandal-Houdini, a relentless scammer who always managed to stay two or three steps ahead of the law and the people. And he got away with it all.

History, though, is the one thing - in the absence of full-blown totalitarian fabrication - that Sick Willie cannot escape. Having made such a virtue of mere political survival, he ensured that he would forever be denied the historical greatness - i.e. "legacy" - that his brittle, titanic ego unquenchably craves. Unwilling when he had the chance to reach for greatness by actually doing something, anything, that might have jeopardized his precious approval numbers - such as denuking North Korea, pre-empting al Qaeda, or toppling Saddam Hussein - he guaranteed that his lilliputian reign will never be anything more than a ribald historical footnote.

For the first time in his pathetic existence, Bill Clinton faces consequences that he can't tap-dance around or make go away. On Sunday it finally cracked the once-impregnable phony mask that fooled America for all these years. And there's no fixing it.

Or maybe it was all a work to get the anti-war crowd off Hillary's back for a while. With the Clintons, can anybody ever really know for sure?