A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the White House

The American Thinker ^ | March 15, 2015 | Clarice Feldman

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The world is accustomed to stock plays and players. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is but a take on a play written in Rome by Plautus a couple of thousand years ago, and all the key players are stereotypes of characters we see over and again in theatrical comedies. Is there after all much space between Pseudolus, the hero of that hoary work, and Sergeant Bilko? In much the same way, the Clintons tend to be characters in a stock play that we’ve seen over and again for decades. The only question this time around is will there be a new ending?

Act One of the Clinton drama is always one or both of them with their fingers caught in the cookie jar--that is Bill or Hillary being caught out having done something that would doom lesser mortals to jail and obscurity. On stage we see the Clintons, the press and pundits, the various public and private watchdogs ,and the stock villainous cohorts--the odious Sidney Blumenthal and David Brock--and stock spinners--usually Lanny Davis and James Carville--who downplay the offense, muddy the legal and factual waters, and accuse the accusers of mental illness(i.e. stalking), ignorance, or evil design.

Act Two is equally predictable:A Clinton takes to the air and gives a carefully parsed denial;one so disingenuous the listener can’t help comparing it to the Governor’s “sidestep” song and dance in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Having been fed incredible pap, the Clinton supporters in the press announce the issue closed, old news, not worth following up, and their less credulous followers are left once again with proof that these Yale law grads are no better than sideshow carnies, but the public, which seems to never sate its love of bread and circuses, falls for the sorry pitch anew......

[Beowulf9]

I take it, Bill sings 'Everybody ought to have a maid'? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahqu1nd3Zu8

[Talisker]

Good article.

[T-Bird45]

That explains my tagline, a sentence from a Mark Steyn article several years ago. It may also explain deja vu.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

>>> HILLARY<<<

[Stosh]

Gotta love the last line of the article:

“Should he ever choose to run, Iowahawk has my vote. At least his pressers would be fun.”

And it brings back fond memories of Iowahawk posts back in the early days of FR.

[Liz]

"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."

[Liz]

I used to really detest Jen Pasaki over at State---but lately I love the way she's feeding pieces of Hillary to the ravenous crowds.

Psaki refutes Hillary's statements whenever she gets the chance.....though she's being ordered to by Obama/Valerie for sure.

Also means insiders do not think Hillary will be coronated---b/c butt-kissers like Psaki would be sucking-up to Hillary right about now---hoping to get a plum WH job if she got elected.

[VRW Conspirator]

Driving this story onward is the fact that Hillary has sucked so much money and air out of the Democrat party that there is no plausible replacement waiting in the wings...

Money quote from the article.

[TADSLOS]

The Ginger Bimbo is already being pulled up to the WH. That news broke just prior to the Hillary E-Mail leak. All a coincidence, I’m sure....