There is a silver lining, if she doesn’t usurp the silver to help pay for her debt.
$20 million debt (and probably rising). That could end any possibility of her trying to mount a run in 2012.
She would have to pay off this debt before starting to mount a 2012 campaign, and debtors would be unlikely to donate to a 2012 campaign. So, chances are, she would be unable, financially, to mount a run in 2012.
[This could finally be the end of the Clinton hold on Washington politics. She could return to the Senate to finish her term. She might try to displace Reid as Senate Leader. Chances are, however, that her political career might end, since her last dream (the presidency) eluded her. Settling for Senate Leadership would be just that — settling for. And Senate Leadership would require allot of work on a daily basis. She would be rather tied to the Senate and unable to flit around the nation — and world.]