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Klein brings no information of the forehead-slapping sort about what went on between the Clintons during the Monica debacle. Several days before special prosecutor Ken Starr was due at the White House to take the testimony that would give Bartlett's one of its quotes, Hillary still didn't know that Starr had the goods on her husband. Did Clinton ever own up to her face-to-face, admit there was a stained blue dress? Klein raises the question whether Hillary's coldness was faked to make people think she was normal or whether she is normal and actually...
Real life has provided a great cast (even if the British accents are so thick, it can be like watching a Ken Loach movie). With dear, lumbering Dad (seemingly boggled by his own wealth); strong-willed wife Sharon (Ozzy's manager); independent-minded daughter Kelly (with dyed-pink hair, like a girl-power answer to Ozzy's black-clad metal-god persona); and chip-off-the-old-block Jack (a likable oddball with a thing for bayonets), the Osbournes are like the Soprano family without the guns. TV thrives on facile distinctions between "functional" and "dysfunctional," but this family...
...then there's the tatters of what was supposed to be the Senate's real business this week - debating energy policy. With Ken Lay's ghost haunting the House version and deep disagreements over everything from CAFE standards to alternative energy sources to ANWR drilling, actual legislation seems unlikely to emerge. But just as the fruitless economic stimulus fight centered on "getting America working again," every congressional debate has an agreed-upon theme. This one? "Reducing our dependence on foreign...
...Sort of makes you wonder what the GAO is so exercised about - unless histrionic gridlock was Ken Lay's secret plan all along...
...there's Enron, playing a dual coming-and-going-role for the president's critics: When Ken Lay was up, he had undue influence over policy; now that he's down, well, that's why you don't have those people in for secret energy-policy deliberations in the first place...