THE CLINTON DISGRACE

Sorry to bring him up again, but something interesting is definitely going on in Washington. For the first time, Clinton disgust is now universal. I have yet to meet a single Democrat who isn’t sickened to his stomach by the excrescence of Clinton’s pardons, and by the puerile vandalism of the White House in the last hours of the old regime. Maybe they finally, finally get what some of us have been banging on about for years. Two thoughts: this will hurt Hillary. The Hassidic pardons will haunt her. Marc Rich will be her Marley’s Ghost. The sheer stench of Clinton’s final hours has already dented her career hopes. And the liberal wing of the party, Hillary’s, has come to the conclusion that Clinton cost Gore the election. (They still can’t bring themselves to accept that Gore’s own lurch to the left did the most damage.) Put those two together and she’s toast. I know that’s a premature judgment, but I can’t even imagine many people going over to her place for dinner at this point. When the Washington Post is running editorials headlined, “Count The Spoons,” you know we’ve reached a watershed. God, I’m happy.