Hillary Clinton

January 23, 2008

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

P.O. Box 617

Nyack, New York 10530

Senator Clinton,

I hold no brief for Senator Bahama but I think you misspoke twice during your hissy-fit dustup with him.

#1 – What about the adage “If there weren’t bad people there wouldn’t be good lawyers”? Whatever his client did he didn’t “arrange” for Presidential pardons, did he? If you’re saying that poltroons like the notorious Rezko shouldn’t have any lawyer why don’t we just send him to Camp Gitmo and be done with him?

#2 – The thing about “ideas” in the political arena can be confusing. Take “midnight basketball” or, as Henny Youngman might have said, “Take midnight basketball…please”. If memory serves that was one of the principal ideas of your husband’s administration. That it didn’t gain traction doesn’t make it any less a good idea. Its time may yet come. Incidentally, the public person who first said that the Republican Party was “the party of ideas” was your predecessor, Senator Moynihan.

President Reagan had the marvelous ideas of winning the Cold War. Letting Americans keep more of what they earned, and rescuing us from the Gehenna of “malaise” that his predecessor consigned us to. If you repudiate his “ideas” does that mean that we should rebuild the Berlin Wall?

Speaking of good lawyers and bad clients, will there be a place in your administration for Webster Hubbell? Will the tent be big enough for Lani Guinier?

PS – Since you are a member of the Bar you are honor and duty bound to tell your husband and your daughter, neither of whom can practice Law, that having witnessed a crime, voter tampering in Las Vegas, they must inform the authorities. In this case the controlling legal authority would be the United Sates Attorney’s office in Las Vegas. If you don’t know the address ask Senator Reid.