"I'M WITH FUZZY." Great things are happening in my onetime adopted home state of Wisconsin. First of all, there was Russ Feingold with the new Air America Morning Zoo crew this morning, talking about how the Democratic senatorial caucus talks big in public, and then folds in private, usually on the advice of consultants "with connections to the previous Democratic administration."
And, well, snap, as the kids say. Even if Hillary Clinton doesn't run herself, the internal fight between people who believe that Bill Clinton was the template for Democratic success, and people who believe that he was sui generis, and that Clintonism has proven to be less a governing philosophy than a cult of personality, is going to the presiding dynamic of the next two election cycles. If the Democrats don't capture either house of Congress this time around, the Clinton side will come back with a vengeance. If the Democrats do manage to gain a working majority in either house, some very famous TV pundits are going to find that their phone calls don't get returned. (And I will bet you cash money that those same people will be the loudest Democratic voices cheering on behalf of the ensuing Broderian Wheatena that passes for "bipartisanship.")
And then there's this great story right here. Any political story that gets people talking about Paul Hornung again is to be celebrated, and this quote from the former Football Annie who's now running for secretary of state is completely priceless, and an indication that, as we say in Milwaukee, her streetcar has bent the corner around, ya-hey?: "Remember the '60's were the dawning of the Age of Aquarius ... and some women were thrilled to experience this brave, new freedom and celebrate our sexuality ... and the football players loved it!"
And, well, amen. I have to admit that's the first time I've heard anyone mention the Age Of Aquarius in a political debate in at least 40 years. Still doesn't mean she can beat someone named LaFollette in Wisconsin, though.
--Charles P. Pierce
