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On 4/7/2016 4:26 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br>
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<div>Which begs the question . . .</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">When (not "If") Hillary Clinton Is
inaugurated in January, what will be Bill Clinton's official
title? First Dude?<br>
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<br>
Bill Clinton's official title likely will be nowhere near as
important as the variety of roles in which he will participate.
Unfortunately, I suspect that the general public will be aware of
fewer than all of them.<br>
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The Obama years may be remembered as uncomfortably under-productive
considering the opposing party's roles in the legislative branch,
but a return of the Clinton family to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may
turn out to be a painful period of presidential potential
unfulfilled if the opposing party controlling the other end of
Pennsylvania Avenue decides to insulate the Executive Offices from
significant achievement. Even worse is the prospect of extended
periods of formal legal combat between branches of the federal
government should the Clintons' ascendancy return. We've been there
before; the prospect of exchanging roles, editing the script lines,
and performing the revised play again to a captive audience causes
at least as much trepidation as excitement.<br>
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Rather than a title, he may have an acronymic nickname: Frosty -
first reader of subpoenas to yield.<br>
(One suspects that may be afflicted with sad - scalia acronym
disease.)<br>
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What is really needed, of course, is a presidential candidate whose
coat-tails are sufficiently strong as to bring a cooperative federal
legislature with him into incumbency. Then the people's business
may be more expeditiously accomplished.<br>
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Ken<br>
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