QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 10:08 A.M. ET:  Nobody has summed up the Hillary weirdness better than Noemie Emery in the Washington Examiner: 

Uh, oh. Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post says it offends her that Carly Fiorina is running for president with a career in business behind her, instead of being a former president's wife. If only she had the gravitas of a Mrs. Bill Clinton, skilled in the arts of bimbo suppression, who went on to stellar careers in her post-Bill incarnation, as … well, as what?

Marcus ticks off the public posts held by Hillary: first lady, senator from New York, secretary of state for Barack Obama. But she fails to say what Clinton did with and in these posts. Were she to try, the seemingly impressive picture would become something considerably less bright.

In 1993, then known as "Bill's better half" and a "new kind of first lady," was given the task of designing a government takeover of health care. This had been planned as the jewel in the crown of the liberal edifice, but it proved a tough nut to crack. In September, 1994 the bill was withdrawn, but not before it had become the great cause célèbre of the upcoming midterms, in which Democrats lost control of both the House and the Senate for the first time in forty years. Elected to the Senate in 2000, thanks in part to her husband's fling with an intern, she voted in 2002 to launch the war in Iraq, turned against it the minute it ran into trouble and then tried to atone by opposing the Surge, which in 2007-2008 made Iraq stable.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It's truly delightful.  So many failures.  So little space.

May 19, 2015