Yes. Offer to put her on the Supreme Court when the next vacancy occurs — if she and Billary do exactly as asked during the campaign. She’d be OK at that job.

Burn, baby, burn.

Looks like my calls to Hillz Central paid off.

Silver bullet? Stake through the heart? The idea of Hilz in the Naval Observatory plotting with her flying monkeys for world domination terrifies me.

@Dodgerblue: You know, her senate career of full-time across the aisle ass-kissing actually might make it possible for her to get through senate confirmation. But its a long shot, can you imagine the shrill panicked hateful universal screams that would arise from the right wing pundits, limbaugh, Will, safire, the neocons en masse, the religious right, my god, it would be a perfect storm that her republican senate colleagues could never stand up to even if they kinda respect her, and just as well because they respect her for the very reasons I hate her. Fuck her, she gets nothing.

Of course, offering her something that in her deluded mind she thinks she could get, though no rational person would, is the perfect buy-out. I have seen it happen.

@Prom: We’ll get more Senators this time around. Maybe not 10, but Obama’s got coattails, and PG’s got none. That makes Supreme Court more plausible.

Must be going. One last threadjacking link for the day. NSFCorrente.

There’s not going to be a Vice President Clinton. As the MSNBC crowd was discussing this evening, 50% of the Clinton primary voters said they’d vote for Obama if he was the nominee. That takes one half of Clinton’s leverage away already, not even considering the people who voted for “presumptive nominee” Clinton early and have since changed their minds. As weeks go by and it finally sinks in that the only two possible winners in November are McCain and Obama the Clinton diehards will dwindle to insignificance, with most Democrats siding with Obama.

I do get a little tired of listening to the old pols on TV considering all of this situation in terms of the politics of elections past. Remember that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. President Obama has campaigned for change and I take him at his word. The old guard is on the way out in the Democratic party. Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter and yes, the Clintons, have had their time in the spotlight. Time for the Democrats of the Twenty First Century to step forward and what better place to start than with the Vice President.

@Dave H: A-fucking-men!

Saturday?! Milady has a way of sucking the air out of the room…

By all rights, this should be the week we’re celebrating a profoundly important moment in American history. And, more practically, the new Democratic nominee should be using this moment to define his candidacy for all Americans, not just his party.

But no. Instead we’re talking about some attention whore who just can’t get off the stage.

@nojo: Bill, Hillary, or both?
He’s so committed to trying to make up for the nightmare he put her through in the 90’s that for him, no level is too low to sink, so long as she wishes it.
She’s so insanely driven to make her dead daddy proud of her, and to secure her historical immortality, that she’s willing to destroy herself, her party, and her country to get it.
The Fall of Empires always produces some remarkably interesting individuals.

@Dodgerblue: Yep. Nail on fucking head. And who wouldn’t rather want to be a SCOTUS justice instead of the fucking Veep. Unicorn just has to publicly promise her the first seat in February ‘09 when Souter announces his retirement to New Hampshire. Nobody should give up a Senate seat for HHS Secretary, but for SCOTUS, hell yeah. (Never mind she should recuse herself from 40% of the cases due to Bubba’s bizness dealings)

@SanFranLefty@Dodgerblue: : That would be a perfect resolution to the problem. I sure as hell hope you’re both correct. Otherwise we’re probably fucked.

@Ewalda: Good point. I used to say that Gore made a mistake by running away from Bubba. And now Swampsow has made a mistake by running with him.

Actually, she made a mistake by running. But that’s for another day.

Oh, and I still think the Cookies did her in. She could never be herself after that.

@SFL: yeah, I started to worry about the recusal issue because of the rich dirtbags that Bill has been sucking money out of. But, she’ll never admit that, right? And he won’t. So, in classic Clinton denial of the obvious, she won’t and can’t say there’s a potential problem with Bill, and she’ll take the deal. Then, two things could happen: she gets confirmed by the Senate, and we’re probably OK; or she doesn’t, and who cares.

@Dave H: That leaves half of “her people” committed to her which is more than enough to be decisive in a close race. I’m not saying that is how it will play out - but she will use anything she can to get back into the White House on her own terms.

This meeting on Saturday? She is going to sit down with the opposition research summaries - the arrests, the drugs, connections with Chicago organized crime, whatever the Clinton campaign has dug up on Michelle - and threaten to hand it all over to McCain to nuke him, unless she is veeped.

“I will fuck you so hard, you’ll be wearing your fucking intestines for a moustache, you fuck. Don’t think I won’t,” she will conclude before flicking her cigarette at Obama.

@FlyingChainSaw: Why do I think of Emperor Palpatine shooting bolts of lightning out of his hands torturing Luke? I’m sure she’s just as pissed off.

I see two things:

As suggested by many:
“Here you go John, let’s see if you can do any better.”

And PG going at the end of every debate:
“Send money to McCain period C. O. M. Please?”
The (Canada City) French Fry guys will wonder why really dumb, and/or bitter US Americans keep trying to give them donations or sending them ALLCAPS emails about how they should beat the black guy.

People, it’s a new day. I awoke this morning to find an email missive from my pal Hillz in which, after thanking me profusely for dedicating myself to making the world a better place via a Clinton prezdincy, she will now retire from the race and announce her strong support for Barry and rally the party behind him. This apparently means all the Bitters and Poors and Stupids who’ve been chorusing Denver, Denver, DENVER!! the last few days.

This is a relief. It means I won’t have to make any more calls to DC or Albany and I can get on with Hope® and Change®

But seriously, what a princess. Some years ago I lived through a catastrophe that included a very public humiliation which, in terms of my work, was at least as bad. Just not on the same scale. My agent took me out to lunch, got me drunk and I coped. Which of us hasn’t in our own way? And I behaved well and put on a brave face as one does when there’s no other choice. It took me several years to get over it but I mostly managed. It left some residual scarring and cost me a great deal as far as work goes but I coped. So fuck her. If you can’t stand losing don’t join the game. She is part of the supporting cast. She isn’t the star. The story is about Barry. And it’s a thrilling prospect. She’s had her scene at the top of act two. Now she needs to get off and go sit in the green room with the boys and watch American Idol. Let Barry pick up the weight of the play and drive it forward. Look at what he’s already achieved. He could be the real deal.

Hope®? I haz it!

@Lyndon LaDouche: I hear you but you’re dealing with the Hilbot 9000 here, not much different from the creature in the alien movies and with a mate, no less, to encourage her.

If Obama does back to normal, just average level of incompetence and corruption, I’ll be thrilled.

It seems like what Hillbot needs is to be publicly rewarded for her hard work. I like the SCOTUS idea. I don’t like the veep idea. At least on the Supreme Court, she gets glory and her name in the papers for the end of time, but is moderated by the other justices. As veep, she picks up Cheney’s reigns of power, and she’s clearly way more vicious and conniving than Barry, in a similar way that Cheney is way more vicious and conniving than Dubya. I definitely don’t want to see that situation continuing.

I also agree that if she isn’t given something, she’s going to fume and spit and live a very angry life. Making someone live an angry life who has quite so many options available to her for inflicting that misery on everyone else seems like a… how shall we say… bad choice.

@IanJ: She’s already rewarded enough. She’s rich, she’s the fucking senator from NYC, her name is a household word. She has a staff. I don’t have a staff. I would be so cool with a staff. I would make them do things and tell me how great I am. I would be awesome with a staff. I say fuck her. Enough is enough. Get over yourself. Go bother someone else. And take your husband with you. And try to keep his pants zipped for fuck’s sake.

Clearly, Bill would never have been able to get through the vetting for her to be veep. Which means there is a great pile of shit waiting to be dumped. Which means the Republicans would have had a field day. And the entire election would have been about Billy Boy’s penis. Which I, for one, Do. Not. Want.

@Lyndon LaDouche: What’s more, she is perfectly well aware of this yet would have led us all through the valley of darkness so she could be a big deal. Fuck her. Let Bill buy her a tiara and call her Majesty. Or, here’s a radical idea, let her do her fucking job for a change. The one for which she was elected and for which she gets paid. By me.

@Lyndon LaDouche: I’m not talking about what she should get. I’m talking about what she needs to get to neutralize her as a threat to the rest of the country for the next four nears. What she should get is a mediocre trailer in a Little Rock trailer park, all the pantsuits she can slither into, and complete obscurity.